[rayiner]

What does one have to do with the other? Japanese internment was racist because US citizens of one race were being treated differently than US citizens of a different race.

Now, maybe you believe that citizenship shouldn’t be a salient category for treating people differently, but that’s an entirely different argument that has nothing to do with internment.

It’s curious that the NPR article doesn’t take exception with the question on the census that’s actually related to internment, which is dividing up American citizens by race and ethnicity.

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Internment started with forcing non-citizens to register with the state. The census question was essentially the same process, but on a national scale.