4th October 2017, 9:27 AM
More noticeable in retrospect, unless you were the groups affected by it. They didn't need a wake up call. As George Takei said when asked if he thought Japanese internment camps seemed like a good idea at the time, "No I did not".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)