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OT: American Politics

zeke said:
yeah, I guess you're just an idiot. who knew?

It's like a major public figure just admitting that Christmas Vacation taught him that Santa Clause doesn't actually exist.
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Aladdin taught me that.

No joke.
 
I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life. For instance, it was not George A. Custer who was attacked at the Little Bighorn. It was Custer — in a bad career move — who attacked the Indians. Much more important, slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks. Slavery was a lifetime’s condemnation to an often violent hell in which people were deprived of life, liberty and, too often, their own children. Happiness could not be pursued after that.
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dripping with contrition?

Steve McQueen’s stunning movie “12 Years a Slave” is one of those unlearning experiences. I had to wonder why I could not recall another time when I was so shockingly confronted by the sheer barbarity of American slavery. Instead, beginning with school, I got a gauzy version. I learned that slavery was wrong, yes, that it was evil, no doubt, but really, that many blacks were sort of content. Slave owners were mostly nice people — fellow Americans, after all — and the sadistic Simon Legree was the concoction of that demented propagandist, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a lie and she never — and this I remember clearly being told — had ventured south to see slavery for herself. I felt some relief at that because it meant that Tom had not been flogged to death.
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dripping with shame?


embarassing.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Heh. Hit a nerve there I see.

Must be hard to be around perfect angelic zeke, who clearly sees the world perfectly, and has never had to change his amazing worldview or been wrong about anything.

Would hate to make a mistake around you.
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You've been learning from the Rob Ford school of argumentation. Cool.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

corksens said:
2nd only to "It's my first day".
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Love the simpsons episode where homer gets caught using that excuse and burns asks him why he thought he could get away with it so he answers again...it is my first day
 
the embarassment comes only from you (and him) not understanding the implications of what he just wrote.
 
Re: OT: Canadian Politics

worm said:
Love the simpsons episode where homer gets caught using that excuse and burns asks him why he thought he could get away with it so he answers again...it is my first day
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The best:

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zeke said:
the embarassment comes only from you (and him) not understanding the implications of what he just wrote.
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The embarrassment derives from your lack of understanding that a passive culture that tends to marginalize the experience of oppressed people in history to the extent that those from groups historically in power don't recognize those experiences is the real problem.

Attack the cause, not the symptom.
 
"I just watched this movie that told me that the KKK weren't just costume party club! crazy, eh?"

"I just watched this move that taught me the nazis weren't just giving the jews a better life. you learn a new thing every day!"
 
"You should see this new flick I just saw ---- apparently kids don't actually LIKE having sex with child molesters. Holy crap, LOL!"
 
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