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Brandon Shimoda writes,
"One defense of internment,"

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and he's speaking of
Japanese internment

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during the Second World War,
"One defense of internment

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was that it kept the
Japanese safe during the war.

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There is an element of truth in
this otherwise dubious defense,

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but only because it exposes
a much darker truth.

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If the treatment of
the Japanese-Americans

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outside the camps was more
hostile, more reactionary, more

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openly threatening than their
treatment inside the camps,

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then where exactly was
internment located?

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Internment was a facet of an
even more pervasive and more

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barbarous national
disposition, which

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is why I locate the
mass incarceration

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of Japanese-Americans
in the heart, conceived

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and constructed in the end
by the human heart, which

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is superlatively, endlessly
capable of manifesting out

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of inexpressible, often
corrosive feeling,

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the longest, most convoluted
yet most comprehensive path

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to the grave."

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Brandon Shimoda

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