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Originally Posted by DC_DEEP  Is that the best you can do? Any oppressed minority should say, "They haven't killed me yet, so I should be happy to be a second-class citizen!"??? Since the "offenders" weren't "officially" executed by the government, miscegnation laws should still be on the books? Women weren't being executed for trying to vote, so they should have just happily accepted their role as chattel, and stopped whining about it? |
Yes, that's precisely what I said.
Of course not! This is how flame wars start. My point was that it gets a lot worse than some of the things mentioned in the OP - not that any of those were invalid. My point was that we in the west have it pretty easy compared to a lot of people and we need to remember that. If we don't remember that we won't be watching to help others, we won't celebrate what generations have fought for, and we lose our perspective.