War on Terror rhetoric recycled the enemy-alien logic of Japanese internment.
Evidence
The USA PATRIOT Act brought back some of the language surrounding patriotism that was used to justify the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II (Cole 2003). Specifically, the language used in the Enemy Alien Act, enacted in 1798, gives the president the authority to deport, detain, or expel any citizen of a country at war with the United States (Cole 2003). This act was a precursor to the internment of Japanese noncitizens and citizens alike. Muslims recognize that if another terrorist attack on the scale of the 9/11 occurs on American soil again, they could be detained and deported without due process or even interned. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 572 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions.; Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims; The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. (+2 more)
Related
- Patriot Act language echoes statutes that enabled Japanese internment (similarity 0.88)
- War on Terror rhetoric revived vocabulary from America’s earlier race-based persecutions. (similarity 0.85)
- PATRIOT Act language revived the legal framework used to intern Japanese Americans (similarity 0.84)
- Anti-Muslim measures replicate legal precedent for Japanese American internment (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Patriot Act language echoes statutes that enabled Japanese internment
#corroborates(0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 572 - Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims
#corroborates(0.85) - The War on Terror weaponizes an invented Orientalist past to victimize Muslims today
#corroborates(0.80) - The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.
#corroborates(0.70)