While we have witnessed Thumper insulting people from all walks of life, we should not get complacent or fooled into accepting this immature behavior as the new normal. We must not confuse his normally nasty narcissistic personality with his hidden deeper motives; we should not confuse his impulsive habit of striking out at anyone at any time with his far more dangerous policies and schemes still in the making and yet to come.
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Sometimes when a problem is not being solved, it’s simply best to stop and take honest stock of where we truly are. There have been too many wasted years of unsuccessful “reforms”. Such thinking as “All students MUST learn Algebra” is in itself old-fashioned, pedantic, and unrealistic. The requirement to take Algebra is wrong. It is this requirement that must be abolished.
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Thus to the question, “Do these Indians and these prisoners have anything in common?” I must answer yes. And something far beyond the mere coincidence of numbers; that which they truly have in common is something so tragic, so numbing, so shocking, that it is better to drop the subject and let this last thought, however truthful, pass unmentioned.
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From a legal viewpoint, then, what can we say of the status of the flag that the Harvard coed chose to fly: that it is mere emblem? Personal room decoration? Artistic statement? Historic relic? We make too light of the matter if we subscribe to any of these simplifications and if we take only the short-term view. That flag must be seen in its proper context:
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When are these role-playing Confederate soldiers going to admit they were and are morally wrong to defend slavery?
When is the South going to apologize to our nation on the fundamental issue of Slavery underlying the Civil War?
When are we going to stop indulging these conjectural “what if’s” that allow Southern sympathizers to fantasize how the South might have won the Civil War–and remind the world that chattel slavery was an indefensible, brutal, and immoral labor regime of the most violent, exploitative, and oppressive nightmare imaginable?
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