This made it easy for racists to release wave after wave of propaganda posters belittling the Japanese people. The hysteria caused by the bombing of Pearl Harbor allowed people to be easily swayed by the ideas that were being impressed on the posters. Hannah Miles put it best when she stated in her article “WWII Propaganda: The Influence of Racism” that the posters “attacked the entire Japanese race by linking their physical attributes to animalism and unintelligence” (Miles 3). Miles added “the anger, fear, and contempt felt toward the barbaric Japanese figures in propaganda images led Anglo Americans to treat Japanese Americans as if they were actually barbarians” (Miles 7). The pressure caused by the propaganda was the push that sent the American people overboard, igniting the tinder to the bonfire of hatred and implanting the idea that the discrimination of the Japanese was the right thing to do. The hotbed of emotion justified President Roosevelt passing Executive Order 9066, which allowed the imprisonment of Japanese
This made it easy for racists to release wave after wave of propaganda posters belittling the Japanese people. The hysteria caused by the bombing of Pearl Harbor allowed people to be easily swayed by the ideas that were being impressed on the posters. Hannah Miles put it best when she stated in her article “WWII Propaganda: The Influence of Racism” that the posters “attacked the entire Japanese race by linking their physical attributes to animalism and unintelligence” (Miles 3). Miles added “the anger, fear, and contempt felt toward the barbaric Japanese figures in propaganda images led Anglo Americans to treat Japanese Americans as if they were actually barbarians” (Miles 7). The pressure caused by the propaganda was the push that sent the American people overboard, igniting the tinder to the bonfire of hatred and implanting the idea that the discrimination of the Japanese was the right thing to do. The hotbed of emotion justified President Roosevelt passing Executive Order 9066, which allowed the imprisonment of Japanese