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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
So, in other words, the OP was a bunch of agenda driven garbage. Doesn't matter, I'll be enjoying my turkey either way
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Aren’t most things, these days?
The problem is that you cannot morally judge the events of one time with the refined sensibilities of a later time. It just doesn’t work. That is why it was so amusing a few years back with all the ersatz angst over slavery being howled to the skies. And for the part, the people howling the loudest knew the least. Looking back throughout history, it is easy to imagine slavery as cutting-edge social progress, if the alternative was to be sacrificed to some deity or other, or being tortured to death for the amusement of your captors.
Same thing for our pre-revolutionary war history. We can agonize all we want over the plight of the indigenous residents of this continent, what with the Europeans coming over and wanting land, but that was the ethic of the time and for quite some time after. Empire-building was SOP for the big powers, and not just in North America but pretty much all over the world: India, SE Asia, Africa, an d Australia comes to mind. Would it be right today? No. But knowing that does not make what happened then, wrong.