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Note the subtitle: "The Case For 'Racial Profiling' In World War II And The War On Terror." Emphasis ours, because those last five words are the key -- many defenders of Japanese internment are using it as a platform to suggest we do something similar with Muslims. None of this stuff, including the "ban Muslim immigration" talk from Donald Trump, has escaped Kiyo's notice. "[General DeWitt] said, 'Once a Jap, always a Jap,' and the whole country listened to him, even Roosevelt ... [and] 120,000 of us were put away. And it's the same thing rearing its ugly head, as far as I'm concerned. And I would have thought that by now I would not have even had to think about it, but here I am, 93 years old and having to worry about it."

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It would be interesting if we could zap ourselves 50 years into the future and see how the internment of the Japanese is written about. To see if the revisionists were eventually successful in rewriting it as a necessary, even humane, measure that for all we know saved a bunch of lives. They're a minority now, sure, but before long all of the survivors like Kiyo will be gone, and maybe the lessons we learned will go with them. And the impulse to exclude, lock up, or kill an entire category of people "just in case"? That shit isn't going anywhere.

Kiyo Sato has written a wonderful book about her experiences, and you can find it here. Robert Evans also has a book coming out, about how sex, drugs and rock-n'roll built civilization. You can buy A Brief History of Vice now!

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