Mediagazer: LA Times EIC Maharaj says that two letters defending WWII internment of Japanese-Americans should not have been published, weren't “civil, fact-based discourse” (Deirdre Edgar/Los Angeles Times)

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Deirdre Edgar / Los Angeles Times:

LA Times EIC Maharaj says that two letters defending WWII internment of Japanese-Americans should not have been published, weren't “civil, fact-based discourse” — Tule Lake, which held nearly 19,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, is now maintained by the National Park Service.

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