Defending repression: why are conservatives trying to rehabilitate McCarthyism and the Japanese internment?
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Published | 2004-11-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Works | Ann Coulter |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
DURING WORLD WAR II, the U.S. government interned about 120,000 ethnic Japanese living in America, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens. This is almost universally regarded as a shameful blot on America's history, a cautionary tale of racism, paranoia, and wartime hysteria. In 1988 President Reagan called it "a grave wrong" and signed legislation authorizing $20,000 in reparations to each surviving internee.
In 2000 another eminent conservative, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, assailed his colleagues' ruling striking down Nebraska's late-term abortion ban by likening...
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