Words Worth Noting - October 6, 2022

“An obvious point about history is that if we take a sanctimonious view of such matters as Japanese internment, and insist that we’re so much better than people back (ugh) then, by depriving us of the ability to understand how other people made mistakes it deprives us of the ability to understand how we might.”

Another of mine, from September 5, 2002.