Re:Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
by turar on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:22PM
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> We are by no means perfect, but I think nations which are able to acknowledge and learn from the mistakes of their past have a leg up on those that try to pretend everything was great.
The United States government has never acknowledged Native American genocide either.
Re:Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
by mikeash on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:44PM
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They clearly have to some extent. That's why I mentioned the National Park Service trail. More would be better, for sure, but we don't deny it, nor prosecute people who say it happened.
Re:Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
by hkt on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:38PM
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Calling it a genocide is an important acknowledgement in its own right.
Re:Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
by mikeash on Saturday December 10, 2016 @11:14AM
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That's an argument that the US could handle it better. My argument is simply that some countries handle it qualitatively better than others, and in particular that the US acknowledges and learns from the Trail of Tears in ways that Turkey does not with the Armenian Genocide. These two arguments are compatible.
Turkey, on the other hand, still tries to pretend that the Armenian Genocide did not happen, even prosecuting people who say it did.
We are by no means perfect, but I think nations which are able to acknowledge and learn from the mistakes of their past have a leg up on those that try to pretend everything was great.