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If you were Japanese-American, wouldn't you agree that we need to roll back mistakes NOW and not wait? I'm responding to the "Eventually" you wrote. When you'r
by sounds 13y ago
If you were Japanese-American, wouldn't you agree that we need to roll back mistakes NOW and not wait?
I'm responding to the "Eventually" you wrote. When you're digging yourself a grave, the sooner you put down your shovel and get out of the hole, the better.
- mturmon 13y agoMy comment was descriptive, not prescriptive; I was trying to provide some perspective. I live in LA and personally know families who spent time in those camps. I also know screenwriting families who lost their jobs during the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. So yes, those mistakes were real, and they can divert the course of lives for the worse. In the flawed world we live in, it takes time for people to change their minds and muster the political will to roll them back. This is generally prompted by over-reach. For example, as the cold war started to cool off a bit, the Church Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee) and the Pike Committee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_Committee). Maybe we're seeing such a time now.