04-17-2019, 01:21 PM
(04-17-2019, 12:24 PM)jj22 Wrote: But when people bring up slavery for example, we constantly hear it wasn't all white people. And there was many who "treated their slaves good" or fought to end it.
You should hear that because it's true. Just as it would be equally true to say that not all Muslims committed a terrorist act on 9/11. However, this isn't what we're discussing.
Quote:Same with Christians who were pretty much absent during all this, and used the bible to justify slavery. And even after slavery abided by the Jim Crow laws. Should we lump all Christians together?
Should black people take that as a shot?
If a white person was discussing slavery and referenced it by saying, "some people did something to some people" then they would deserve the condemnation Omar is currently receiving for trivializing or minimizing what actually happened. I also tend to think the backlash would be at least as intense, if not more so.
Quote:Do you agree then all white people should bare the burden?
Minorities should be (we are unfortunately) the only people who bare the burden of others in our race (or in this case a minority religion).
People in the majority seems to be the only ones who get away with not carrying this burden.
You're making a point that no one else has made in this thread and defending a position no one has assailed. Trivializing or minimizing an event is the topic at hand, not a burden of guilt based on ethnicity for the sins of the past.
