> why is it that we pay far more attention to what happened to 'victims'
> of joe mccarthy than the 100,000+ japanese-americans who were
> dispossessed, imprisoned, and treated much horribly than anyone who
> was blacklisted during the red scare era?
>
> why is it that far more attention has been paid to the Moscow Trials
> than the mass killings and famine that led to the deaths of 10 million
> Ukrainian peasants in the USSR?
>
> why is it that the victims of the chinese cultural revolution have
> received far more attention the victims of the Great Leap Forward?
>
> in all three cases, there was a great imbalance in the magnitude of
> the suffering.  japanese-americans suffered in far greater numbers and
> to a much greater degree than far fewer people who were blacklisted
> during the mccarthy era.  japanese-americans were all targeted
> regardless of their political beliefs or ideology, whereas blacklisted
> folks under mccarthy were targeted for their politics.  for example,
> even though the disproportionate number of communist sympathizers were ...