Internment of Japanese Americans was driven by racism, not military necessity

Evidence

Of the more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry imprisoned during World War II, two-thirds were US citizens, and almost all of the remaining one-third were permanent residents. They were imprisoned solely because of their race, because they looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. They were innocent and had done nothing to suggest disloyalty. And yet they were still rounded up and sent to prison without so much as a hearing. The government justified this abuse of power as necessary to protect national security in a time of war. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 185 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Racist conspiracy fears drove Japanese internment and Red Scare witch hunts — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 83; The US interned Japanese-Americans by legally recategorizing them from enemies to an enemy race.; Japanese-Americans were classified as an enemy race, not merely alien enemies, before internment. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 394 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Race alone justified the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. #corroborates (0.95)
• Japanese Americans were imprisoned solely for racial appearance without hearings #corroborates (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 185