02-08-2016, 10:24 PM
(02-08-2016, 11:57 AM)fredtoast Wrote: If you lived in south Africa then I would allow you to use your victim card as a white person. So we can drop that line of argument. But let me ask you this. What did the black people in South Africa think about the country during apartheid? I mean, I am guessing the Jim Crowe South was also a nice place for a white guy to hang out.
And I remember that white people committed the greatest acts of genocide in human history in the 1940's, but that did not mean white people everywhere were like that.
Wrong. You don't get to choose the parameters. That isn't real debate. You don't get to say... let us focus on the US but not smaller areas like Selma, which is in ruin. Or larger areas, such as Africa, which is in ruin.
You want to pick and choose the the parameters so you can control the argument.
Won't work with me.
Using your argument, if blacks lived in a time where they are slaves then they can use the victim card... however slavery ended in the US in 1865.
It was white people that did away with slavery. Blacks didn't free themselves. William Wilberforce, William Pitt, John Newton and Charles James Fox, worked hard convincing the British Government to outlaw slavery and sent British ships out to stop the trade from continuing.
There are countless white people that have died putting an end to the notion of slavery.
What do we get for it? Constant reminder of how at one time whites in America owned slaves. Constant accusations of racism.
No apologies from me. No guilt here.
