Chemerinsky, Erwin - short clip - Human
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- | I think the difficulty is that I don't think | 0:00 |
that the American public has ever been able | 0:02 | |
to see the Guantanamo detainees as human beings. | 0:04 | |
That maybe that'll be the beauty | 0:08 | |
and the brilliance of this project. | 0:10 | |
But the Guantanamo detainees can still | 0:12 | |
too easily be characterized as terrorists, | 0:14 | |
and not being presented as human beings. | 0:18 | |
I was so struck when there was the commercials last week | 0:21 | |
in the news and doing some media stuff around them | 0:24 | |
where it was being presented as, | 0:27 | |
how could these lawyers who represented terrorists | 0:28 | |
now be high level positions in the government? | 0:31 | |
And of course, if anything I'd say alleged terrorists, | 0:33 | |
we don't know why they're there. | 0:36 | |
But I think the fact that they're not presented | 0:38 | |
as human beings makes it too easy to caricature them. | 0:41 |
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