Don't try to rehabilitate deceased people after condemning them during their life.
Oppenheimer wasn't wrong. He isn't being rehabilitated. He's being exonerated.
Essentially, you're adding insult to injury because you expect to be forgiven for being a totally fucked up asshole in the past.
Doing so isn't about feeling good, it's about correcting the historical record and calling out the propaganda and the unacknowledged personal and political agendas at play.
Own your blunders and crimes. At least have the guts to accept that you fucked up.
Biden didn't have anything to do with the slandering and humiliation of Robert Oppenheimer.
Biden was 12 years old when the AEC revoked Oppenheimer's security clearance.
If you're looking for someone to blame, try AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss, William Lisc
Forget about the communism and other stuff. If I'm putting together a project and selecting staff, I don't want people who question it's morality or other justifications for being done.
The Holocaust happened because there were people who think like that, and there were enough people who obeyed without question.
Was Oppenheimer gay? Or transgender? Or black? Why would Biden care about Oppenheimer? And why would a dead person want a security clearance?
Your comment is a sad example of what Slashdot commentary has become.
Own your blunders and crimes. At least have the guts to accept that you fucked up.
Is that not what this is? "The government shouldn't have done that, and we're reversing the decision because it was wrong."
Don't try to rehabilitate deceased people after condemning them during their life.
Oppenheimer wasn't wrong. He isn't being rehabilitated. He's being exonerated.
Essentially, you're adding insult to injury because you expect to be forgiven for being a totally fucked up asshole in the past.
Doing so isn't about feeling good, it's about correcting the historical record and calling out the propaganda and the unacknowledged personal and political agendas at play.
Own your blunders and crimes. At least have the guts to accept that you fucked up.
Biden didn't have anything to do with the slandering and humiliation of Robert Oppenheimer.
Biden was 12 years old when the AEC revoked Oppenheimer's security clearance.
If you're looking for someone to blame, try AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss, William Lisc
Forget about the communism and other stuff. If I'm putting together a project and selecting staff, I don't want people who question it's morality or other justifications for being done.
The Holocaust happened because there were people who think like that, and there were enough people who obeyed without question.