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Comment author: Lumifer 04 February 2014 05:51:35PM *  8 points [-]

Some fears are trivial and some are not.

Today the Supreme Court justice Anthony Scalia said (emphasis mine):

Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Kore­ma­tsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hira­ba­ya­shi and Fred Kore­ma­tsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp. "Well, of course, Kore­ma­tsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again,"

Comment author: fubarobfusco 05 February 2014 03:05:20AM 3 points [-]

Sorry, is he saying that Korematsu (the case) was wrong, or that Korematsu (the defendant) was wrong?

Comment author: Stabilizer 05 February 2014 03:09:07AM *  8 points [-]

Korematsu (the case).

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