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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
