Very thoughtful. I binged on the series a few years ago and had no idea the show would be that prophetic.

Speaking of WWII, the media were crucial in whipping up racist sentiment to justify the Japanese internment camps:

The first public call to intern the Japanese seems to have been made at the beginning of January 1942 by John B. Hughes, a prominent radio commentator of the Mutual Broadcasting Company. Shortly thereafter, Henry McLemore, syndicated columnist of the Hearst newspapers told his readers:

I am for immediate removal of every Japanese on the West Coast to a point deep in the interior. I don’t mean a nice part of the interior either. Herd ’em up, pack ’em off and give ’em the inside room in the badlands. Let ’em be pinched, hurt, hungry and dead up against it …

Personally, I hate the Japanese. And that goes for all of them.

(quoted in The Japanese Camps in California by Mark Weber)

There’s even an episode of the Batman serial justifying the removal of Japanese-Americans.