Reading that statement horrified me and sent me back here to comment on it. There was literally nothing these people could've done to prove themselves. If auth

Reading that statement horrified me and sent me back here to comment on it. There was literally nothing these people could've done to prove themselves. If authorization were granted to fully exterminate them, this person would've gladly run with the order. As terrible as this whole time period in American history was, it's even more terrifying to think of just how close it came to being even worse. And it all would've been justified and swept under the rug, and instead of being given a half day of US history class as a passing mention of "yeah bad things happened but it won't happen again", maybe given 2 days of study and a "we definitely learned to not do that again".