I wonder how those who believed the below felt when proven wrong.
- The earth is flat
- Women aren't suited for big business and politics
- Apartheid is not our concern
- Interning Japanese Americans is a good policy
- Blacks should be patient and avoid the horror of the Civil Rights struggle
- Lightning never strikes the same place twice
- Priests are above reproach
- There are no gas chambers
- Stalin is not starving the people of the Ukrainian S.S.R.
- The government would never use an atomic bomb.
- This luxury cruise ship is unsinkable
- Rwanda needn't be on our radar
- The levees will hold
- Resettling and confining natives is benevolent and best for all
- The K.K.K. and other hate groups are relics
- Joseph McCarthy is powerless
- It's an innovative business for employers to be good to employees. They would never endanger them.
- "Operation Wetback" could never happen again
- The I.E.E.P.A. (International Emergency Economic Powers Act) will be used only for dire situations
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