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Comment by fr33d0m_ | Hacker News Reader

I'm no historian expert, but at the time the world was in the middle of World War II and on Sunday, December 7, 1941 there was an event maybe you have heard of called "Pearl Harbor"?

Executive Order 9066 (This post and re: the camps) was signed February 19, 1942.

Every action has a reaction, especially in times of war, no?

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And in this case that action was arresting thousands of Americans with no charge, seizing their assets, and then acting like it was necessary.

There was no similar incarceration of German and Italian Americans during WW2. There was no internment of Russian Americans during the Cold War.

This obsession that people have in pretending this was not entirely based on race is getting old.

Asian would be a race, "Japanese" in that case is a nationality - no?

"There was no internment of Russian Americans during the Cold War." -- Last I recall, during the cold war there wasn't thousands of suicide Kamakazee pilots flying planes into a US Navy base and destroying US war ships(Pearl Harbor)?

Japanese didn’t use Kamikaze pilots until much later in the war and were out of resources. They suffered almost no casualties during Pearl Harbor.

Their nationality was American.

Also "asian" isn't a race

> Every action has a reaction, especially in times of war, no?

Yep, but they’re a lot more effective when directed at the enemy, not at your own citizens.

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