RE: FB bans 'dangerous' individuals
May 9, 2019 at 6:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2019 at 6:25 pm by Amarok.)
(May 9, 2019 at 5:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Your comparison doesn't work your comparing a state of victimhood (addiction ) To a state of exploiting other people (slavery). And as a person who has counselled addicts and has lost people to addiction I find your comparison simply awful.(May 9, 2019 at 5:43 pm)Amarok Wrote: Ending something you still used isn't a virtue
Yeah, fuck those recovering heroin addicts, amirite?
Boru
(May 9, 2019 at 6:10 pm)Thena323 Wrote:Is a man who beats his wife given credit for stopping it(May 9, 2019 at 5:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don't disagree that your government has been shockingly racist, not am I attempting to excuse racism or slavery. I agree that government institutions have a long and shameful history of perpetuating institutional racism. I don't for a minute imagine that racism vanished in a puff of good feelings in 1865.
But don't the same government institutions that normalized slavery deserve at least some credit for ending it, particularly given the heavy public opposition to doing so?
Boru
IDK.
Does a rapist deserve "credit" when they stop sexually violating you, yet happily follow you around town while slapping you upside the head and generally making your life HELL in other ways?
Lol..Not really, IMO.
(May 9, 2019 at 6:16 pm)madog Wrote: Not saying anyone today should be blamed .... However those that want to share in the pride of their past should also be willing to share in the shame ...Responsibility is not the same as blame
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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