FB bans 'dangerous' individuals

[Amarok]

Your comparing apples and oranges . A family line isn't the  same a legal  governing body .

*shrug*  Governing bodies are made up of human beings.  Governance constitutes the acts of those human beings.  None of the people who acted to legitimize, continue, and support slavery are with us today.

Simply because a continuance of government exists doesn't seem to be enough reason to place responsibility of the acts of a prior government on the current one - the people are different, the mindset is different, the laws are different. 

Boru

it's the same government even if it made up of different human beings . Once again we aren't talking about punishing people were talking about the legal institution .

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And which members of the current US Congress voted for either of those acts?

Boru

We all know those members of Congress are long dead, Boru.

But the system of white supremacy that permitted slavery continued to turn the screws by enacting sadistic, thoroughly racist policies that were explicitly designed give tremendous advantage to whites and to cement blacks as a permanent underclass until the early 1970's.

This notion that slavery just kind of "happened" to the US, and that the driving force behind it no longer exists is insane.

The narrative here seems to be "That's all in past". My counter-narrative is that the past is nowhere near as distant as some folks believe it to be.
My own parents' formative years and early adulthood was spent living under the thumb of Jim Crow.

And it remains a fact it's the same legal governing institution .Weither or no it's the same people is aside the point .