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Really? What kept black people at the back of the bus to begin with? Some idea regarding the natural superiority of whites (??) or the fact that they could be arrested without cause, lynched or beaten without any legal recourse?Originally Posted by Dr. Who
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Seriously, you watch too many movies if you think Rosa Parks stood any chance of being lynched for her actions. Obviously, that didn't happen and there was about as much chance of her being lynched for that as there was for her being trampled by a rhinoceros.
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Parks was a trained radical who did nothing different from what other radicals had done both before and after. And she wasn't even successful.
Look, you know I consider you a friend and respect you. I know Americans are a peculiar lot in the way they cling to civil rights mythology. I've said my peace. I'll leave it that.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
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The civil rights movement happened in my lifetime, not in yours. I think I might relate to the period better than you. My recollections don't come from movies.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Having successfully resisted state sponsored brain washing I know I give some of you the creeps. No worries.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
KC (02-27-2013)
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Geez D, there may be some things that you don't know as well as those who lived during that time. Would you tell Napolean that you know more about his time than he did?Having successfully resisted state sponsored brain washing I know I give some of you the creeps. No worries.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Actually, having studied his time I would know a great deal more about his time than he would. Who would know more about the Battle of Waterloo overall? Someone with the benefit of 200 years of hindsight and scholarly work or someone who was there? Granted, he would know a lot things no one has been able to discover but I know what was going on all over Europe. He didn't. Someone studying my time centuries from now would know far more about it than I would.
I know my views make folks uncomfortable. Sorry.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
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The problem with historical writers is that they bring their own bias into the story. The people who read history pick and choose whose version they want to read based on their own bias.Actually, having studied his time I would know a great deal more about his time than he would. Who would know more about the Battle of Waterloo overall? Someone with the benefit of 200 years of hindsight and scholarly work or someone who was there? Granted, he would know a lot things no one has been able to discover but I know what was going on all over Europe. He didn't. Someone studying my time centuries from now would know far more about it than I would.
I know my views make folks uncomfortable. Sorry.
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Of course they do. We all do. Napoleon had his. I have mine. You have yours.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
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I don't. I'm God's perfect little empiricist.
Mister D (02-27-2013)
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