The two approaches are not mutually exclusive. There was racism against people of Japanese descent. However, in Hawaii, rationality prevailed due to practical considerations.
The US did intern German Americans too, in both WW1 and WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
About 36% of all people interned in WW2 were Germans. There were far more Germans in the US (millions) so interning them all was totally impractical, unlike the much smaller number of Japanese (~125,000).
In Hawaii about 1/3rd of the population were Japanese. And again, due to the enormous numbers involved, only a small % were interned.
The policies weren't about racism. They were about practicality.
Interned Germans were mostly German citizens. From your link: "During WWII, the United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals [...] The government examined the cases of German nationals individually"
OTOH for Japanese: "The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. [...] A key member of the Western Defense Command, Colonel Karl Bendetsen, went so far as to say “I am determined that if they have "one drop of Japanese blood in them, they must go to camp.""
Thanks ;) I joined last year actually, but the UX was so clunky back then that I didn't stay. It has improved a lot since then!
Thanks, it's better 😉
Theoretically yes. But is there a client with a UX that is usable by a normal human being? I'm using iris and it's quite bad. Or maybe I'm stupid?
(Trying my luck on Nostr for this question 😅)
My July 2024 public investing newsletter is now available.
For the long term, it re-iterates a view toward fiscal dominance in the United States.
For the intermediate term, it focuses on how the U.S. economy is likely to be insensitive to interest rate cuts in the upcoming cycle, similar to how it was insensitive to interest rate hikes in the prior cycle.
https://www.lynalden.com/july-2024-newsletter/
Thanks for this great article! ChatGPT summarized it to me in this way: Is it correct?
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