Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
A silly thing, in hindsight.
A disgusting thing, even at the time. It was overt, institutionalized racism. If you were truly detached from that day and age, you would have no qualms condemning it, would you? Why would you depict it as just a harmless fad?

In fact, while this was going on in France, the KKK were burning crosses and threatening blacks in the US. The reason they lost any standing with the American public (and were broken up by the IRS) around this time was not their racism, but the fact that they were against the war effort and that more than a few of them sympathised with nazi Germany.

Both the parade story and the Turing story remind us that it was only an amazingly short time ago that such abuses were politically and socially accepted - even among the victors of that war. In that short time we have come a long way.