[HN Gopher] USC to apologize for WWII actions that derailed Japa...
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USC to apologize for WWII actions that derailed Japanese American
students
Author : hhs
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-10-16 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.latimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.latimes.com)
| 1cvmask wrote:
| Curious from others. Is there a reason that Japanese American is
| not hyphenated in this article but it is in many other places
| including government documents. What is the convention around
| this?
| jikbd wrote:
| Apologising for something that happened decades ago when those
| responsible are no longer working and most of them are dead? Well
| that's got to be easy.
| critsysdev wrote:
| I think this is a good gesture and don't want to downplay it.
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| But I'm not clear on the significance of this announcement of a
| coming apology? Why not just issue an apology now and seek out
| the families to send a more personal apology to them over the
| coming months?
| clairity wrote:
| the cynic might say they're trying to maximize the pr value,
| after a string of bad publicity.
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| usc was incidentally part of an fbi indictment against mark
| ridley-scott, a long-time local politician who was on the city
| council when he essentially bribed usc to let his son go there
| in exchange for lucrative contracts for the social work school.
| chroem- wrote:
| It will be interesting to see how the US reacts to CCP-backed
| Confucius Institutes operating on american university campuses,
| in the event of a conflict over Taiwan.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| Does this benefit anyone but USC?
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