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DP.  Not analogous.  In all your examples, the negative events were purely happenstance.  In the case of plantations, their express purpose was forcing human beings to toil as slaves for the enrichment of the plantation owners.[/quote]

Which, at the time, was perfectly legal, and had been for centuries...[/quote]

What does legality have to do with it?  It's a huge, immoral stain on our country's history, and I wouldn't want to give the appearance of celebrating that "bygone era."  People that do make themselves look either clueless or racist.[/quote]

At the time, slavery was considered neither illegal nor immoral. The claim that "it's a huge, immoral stain on our country's history," is [i]entirely retroactive[/i]. You are projecting today's values back on past centuries where they have no relevance or application. The idea that we, today, should feel guilty for things [i]we did not do[/i], and for which the actual perpetrators neither did [i]nor should[/i] (remember: neither illegal nor immoral) feel any guilt, is absurd and insane.

There is no "stain" on me or on 2019 America from antebellum slavery. Nobody alive today had anything to do with it, or suffered from it.[/quote]

Says, you I guess you don’t know the affects that slavery had on generations of African Americans in this country, do do you know the affects of being a nonwhite person in this country. Get over it? Really? My Mom who is not black was not allowed in white stores in Texas because of Jim Crow. My husband’s family Holocaust survivors, I guess his grandmother should get over it.

Must be nice to not be affected by racism. Talk about white privileged. 
A) you still benefit from it and B)you trot out the same ridiculous contextual morality every time somebody mentions something that God knows and 
anybody else knows Is wrong, WAS wrong, WILL ALWAYS be wrong.
You need  Jesus, a conscience, and a better group of friends  than those fools you hang around with on Stormfront , not necessarily in that order.[/quote][/quote]

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