According to Burns, FDR also voiced regret

...sexual orientation, IQ...

@crazycurlz When Sandy Hook happened, they started talking about registering all the people with Autism/Aspergers. My youngest son has Aspergers and he's NOT a threat to anyone. People need to stop with their knee-jerk reactions and actually stop and think it out.

@kiramea I absolutely agree. But, people are prone to knee-jerk reactions. To counteract the bullies and the followers, people need to speak up on a regular basis. We all feel so vulnerable right now, unsure of where this government is trying to send us. We all have to speak up on a regular basis against hate of any kind. When hate starts, it's a snowball effect.

YES! And there is none...precisely because we keep the past fresh/learn from past mistakes.

hmmm...forget the past is to repeat the past. I don't feel like a victim in remembering my great grandparents who were murdered in WW II. My Jewish aunt, born in Poland, married a guy, born in Germany who served as a medic in the German army. He was an unwilling Nazi. Remembering the past does not equate to feeling like victims.

@crazycurlz Can you point out where I said forget the past?

@KenG "...that happened a long time ago. If we stay in the past then we don't move on and we continue to feel like victims. Don't feel like a victim." Your words.

@HoracioM "Allegiance" was the musical. Ah, Takei as an activist. Can't imagine Star Trek without Sulu.

@FortyTwo in acknowledging Japanese American internment, no one diminishes these episodes. all equally devastating and thoughtless.

@FortyTwo hmmm...not sure what you meant by 'eclipses' then. Doesn't matter. I agree about genocide. It is devastating. But also pretty certain that when Jedi's family was incarcerated they weren't really sure there wouldn't be genocide. The Germans went through this, too.
So here's the thing EVERY country has things in their history that are shameful. It's not just the US. These bad things are not just a US phenomena, they're a HUMAN SPECIES phenomena. There's a lot of ways that this country got it right, too.

@FortyTwo You're applying some made-up, subjective judgement method. There's no scale to measure horror. To these families, stripped of their liberties and properties, unsure of outcomes, in a country in which they are a minority with a history of slavery and land grabbing...how do you judge what they experienced?
I have friends and neighbors: Kurds, Chaldean from Iraq, African American, African from Nigeria, Somalia, coworkers who became migrants after the war in Bosnia, my own ancestors that went through the holocaust. I don't put them on a scale. There's no way to measure the impact on families.
So the way I approach is: there is no way to measure the impact on families. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's something wrong with the Human Species. When you judge and measure these events one against the other, you overlook that fact.

coldo, it's not an American phenomena. People the world over marketed in rape and pillage, enslaving others. It's part of human history. When people acknowledge this is part of our makeup as a whole and stop placing the burden on one group or another, then and only then do we make progress. It's really about shouldering personal responsibility.