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You're giving me the same line that always gets trotted out to defend historical bullshit. I understand the argument, I've heard it before, and I don't buy it. In the modern day (where we live and are conversing) the constitution has a history of blatant human rights violations. We should recognize and acknowledge that, not excuse it for being "from a different time."
i'm guessing altheahunter is a grateful dead reference. that's awesome. i'm an old deadhead too. as one to another, you can do better as a human being. the music is supposed to help teach a greater understanding.
As I said, I understand just fine. I'm just not willing to hand-wave away the unforgivable parts of our original constitution just so we can all feel warm and fuzzy about it.
yet here you are, trying to feel warm and fuzzy about your idealistic moral high ground.
I think I've been quite the opposite of warm and fuzzy about it...
it's just that, if you vilify everyone from the past for not living up to your modern standards, then how do the people just getting here learn from history? it can all be dismissed because they all had it wrong.
Some of us can do both, you don't need to get aggressive just because you can't.