“The Japanese were the ones who bonbed Pearl Harbor and threatened an invasion of the west coast like they’d done successfully throughout the Pacific.
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“The Japanese were the ones who bonbed Pearl Harbor and threatened an invasion of the west coast like they’d done successfully throughout the Pacific.”
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Then why weren’t the Japanese in Hawaii interned? Most of them weren’t.
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I don’t see how that supports a charge of racism in any case...
Impractical I’d guess, but it is curious.
Because Hawaii was under martial law, easing security concerns, I gather:
http://www.hawaiiinternment.org/
“...In addition to the 1,200 or so local Japanese who were eventually arrested, there were also about 100 local Germans and Italians who were arrested and interned.”
That was only about 1%.