The Bikini relocation was a disastrous mistake dismissed with racist press coverage.

Evidence

Within months it became clear that the move to Rongerik had been a disastrously planned mistake, leaving the Bikinians in dire conditions. The New York Times wrote in classically ethnocentric language that the Bikinians “will probably be repatriated if they insist on it, though the United States military authorities say they can’t see why they should want to: Bikini and Rongerik look as alike as two Idaho potatoes.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 192

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Echoes the condescending press framing of colonized peoples seen in the complainer/colonizer dynamics of the immodesty article and reflects the general theme of powerful actors minimizing indigenous suffering.