Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Malkin's Book at Manzanar

From the letter I recieved from the National Park Service:

Thank you very much for your inquiry about the presence of Michelle
Malkin’s In Defense of Internment in our Manzanar History Association (MHA)
bookstore at Manzanar National Historic Site.

Our decision to carry the book in Fall 2004 followed extensive review and
consultation with historians, academics, former internees, and others.
The consensus was that, while none substantially agreed with Ms. Malkin’s
conclusions or scholarship,
it is not the role of the National Park
Service to censor dissenting viewpoints, past or present. (DB) Unless your view happens to be that the park service employs too many enforcement rangers
As one
prominent academic stated, “providing only one perspective is not
education, it is propaganda. There are not many books written with this
general perspective, and it’s important to include dissenting views.”

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