Well there are no records of any Japanese running around with katanas chopping heads from that time.
On the other hand in blindly immigrant accepting Europe though... We learned our lesson since last year.
The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (2007)
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#12A sad chapter in our history. What's terrifying to me is that many prominent people still defend it today. And not just people associated with the winner of the recent presidential election.
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#13"I'm sad to learn it," he says of the new discovery. "It would be sadder yet to continue to deny that it happened, if, as now seems clear, it did happen. You cannot learn from and correct past mistakes unless you know about them." I wonder if this will ever be said about Snowden in the NSA
>> You cannot learn from and correct past mistakes unless you know about them. I must getting older, because I see this statement a lot and when you look back, its clear we never do learn from our past mistakes.
> I must getting older, because I see this statement a lot and when you look back, its clear we never do learn from our past mistakes.
Hence the current JavaScript development stack(s)
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#14Well there are no records of any Japanese running around with katanas chopping heads from that time. On the other hand in blindly immigrant accepting Europe though... We learned our lesson since last year.
Are you joking? The Japanese military committed many atrocities in invaded countries:
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#15Looks like the EU decision that people shouldn't have to transfer data to the USA is a good move.
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#16France doesn't ask for or record race/ethnicity on its censuses for exactly this reason. If you don't store it, you can't be made to give it up.
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#17I wonder if they'll do the same for Muslim Americans for the upcoming presidential term.
I'm certain the federal government as a whole already does. Various TLAs hand over data to the FBI easily, 'cuz terrorists. The census dept. is no longer important, compared to others, such as NSA, NRO, etc.
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#18Why is anyone surprised? If we should've learned anything from the last couple of weeks, it should be that it turns out that despite recent progress, America hasn't strayed far from its roots. The powers of government have long been used as a weapon against various groups over our history. All that's happened recently is the removing of the mask.
I tend to agree. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest, to the point of being un-newsworthy. Of course the Law Enforcement / Intelligence Apparatus is able to get info they need from teh Census Bureau...
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#19"I'm sad to learn it," he says of the new discovery. "It would be sadder yet to continue to deny that it happened, if, as now seems clear, it did happen. You cannot learn from and correct past mistakes unless you know about them." I wonder if this will ever be said about Snowden in the NSA
>> You cannot learn from and correct past mistakes unless you know about them. I must getting older, because I see this statement a lot and when you look back, its clear we never do learn from our past mistakes.
Sure we do. Every living person is here because someone learned from their past mistakes at some point.
Implying that "we" don't learn from our mistakes is suggesting that we are all complicit when in reality I'm not sure most Americans even support programs like registering people based upon their religion. You could argue that every vote for Trump was condoning this policy but I think that is too simplistic.
The real issue is that we still don't have an effective means to resist the stranglehold that certain interests have on those in power and we have a shortage of inspirational leaders willing to tell the truth rather than whatever the crowd wants to hear.
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#20Why is anyone surprised? If we should've learned anything from the last couple of weeks, it should be that it turns out that despite recent progress, America hasn't strayed far from its roots. The powers of government have long been used as a weapon against various groups over our history. All that's happened recently is the removing of the mask.
um, well, if you're going to take it in that direction... FDR was a democrat.
I'm not sure I get your point.