The most
immediate consequences of Executive Order 9066 was to ensure that the Roosevelt Administration
asserted total authority in wartime. The internment of people of Japanese ancestry represented
to what lengths the American government would go to ensure that there would be no possibility of
treason during wartime. The consequences of the Executive Order was also to clearly demonize
the Japanese as "the other." Even if the Japanese it targeted had nothing to do with
anything subversive, the consequences of the order was to clearly identity "the other"
as a Japanese enemy.
Fueled by the propaganda that served to embolden those
in the position of power, the long term consequences of the Executive Order was to reduce the
moral stature of the United States in fighting the war. While the need to attack
and...
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