Secession Ball

Ordinarily a ball celebrating the 150th anniversary of the South Carolina secession from the Union would not bother me in the least little bit even if I do have to read about it from a website based in England.

But this point is a good one. "What would happen if Japanese Americans decided to have a ball to celebrate Pearl Harbour?"

Yes, there is a very severe double standard at play here. We can fill in the above critique with all kinds of different names linked to various atrocities and they just simply could not take place. People would be aghast.

So in my opinion, there must be a social threshold that an event has to cross in order to muster enough demanding dissent to stop it. Or if the threshold is crossed, which I believe the Secession Ball does, there has to be a counter force that pushes the dissent backwards, pushes it back down to the level of non story, non starter.

I suspect we might be able to think of reasons why this ball can be held, and who is not going to try to stop it even in the face of valid dissent.

Guardian UK: 'Secession ball' marks start of American civil war with champagne and dancing

A ballroom full of white guests gathered last night, each paying $100, to mark the anniversary of 20 December 1860, the day that South Carolina became the first state in the US to declare secession from the Union in order to protect the right to slavery.

"What would happen if Japanese Americans decided to have a ball to celebrate Pearl Harbour?"