(2/2) Do not use "#internment", as #ZinnProject does, to refer to incarceration of #JapaneseAmericans, as it perpetuates the #racist logic of the order. Internment is for prisoners of war. These Americans were put in concentration camps because of race.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fred-korematsu-arrested/
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