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The government has apologized and provided cash compensation to victims who were forced into camps. There is no denying that what happened to Japanese-American internees was abhorrent and wrong.
Hat tip Arthur Silber.
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John
Thanks!
Of course, she has perfect right to change her mind though becoming an "expert" after only five years (or less) is quite an accomplishment. I am curious as to whether her shift began before or after 9-11.
Malkin repudiated this view long ago. She says that at the time she wrote this, she was still under the sway of the America-hating left's false account of the internment.
Sorry, I could tell you were taking a shot at someone, but it wasn't immediately clear whether it was Malkin or Beito. I just throught I'd make it clear.
I mostly wanted to clarify the first line: it's not "consistency" that's the problem, but "foolish consistency"; remembering that distinction has heightened my appreciation for pragmatic inconsistency in policy and morality...
It was ironic.
I'd never seen the second sentence of that Emerson quote before. That sentence reveals a Raskolnikov-like sense of superiority to the ordinary rabble.
Malkin is, of course, contemptible.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance."
I'm sorry, but Malkin has a long way to go (backwards, even) before she's in "great soul" category, particularly as she's a great purveyor of "foolish consistency" herself.
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson