[tptacek]

I find your sentiment somewhat tossed-off, implying as it does that we "regularly ignore" things like Japanese-American internment camps, when in fact we teach them to elementary school children as national disgraces we hope never to repeat.

[dragonwriter]

> when in fact we teach them to elementary school children as national disgraces we hope never to repeat

When it's cited as a precedent to justify a policy proposal, it's pretty clear that lesson isn't being taught effectively, if it's being taught.

[quesera]

That is not a component of all curricula in the country. And the idea of a "registry" is a modern day touchy thing.

[gdilla]

you wouldn't think so after the rhetoric of the last presidential campaign. We forgot all our lessons of national disgraces.