You read about horrible things that happened in the 1800s and your takeaway is... we should allow such things to happen again today? Can you elaborate a little bit?
Despite all that, or maybe thanks to having recognized the errors in our ways, we have grown into a democracy that now truly respect cultural differences.
Look at free speech here in the US, vs say in Austria or Germany: after WW2, they banned everything nazi related. We have some crazies marching down in full uniforms. Yet they are the one with a neonazi problem- not us. How come?
What is happening is sad and horrible, but at the society level, these are growing pains. You can't force enlightenment onto societies by force.
What blessed this generation with a wisdom not seen before?
What, precisely?
Does sovereignty still exist?
People do as they do.
All the weeping in the world will not make it so.
I imagine the answer should be, "pretty much anyone who isn't a child abuser."
No other realm may decide the fate of these people.
China is sovereign, and we must acknowledge that.
What does that mean to you, exactly?
Stalin and Mao agreed in a fateful moment to take a side with the U.S.
The adversaries perished.
We are left to decide amongst and between ourselves what to do.
In the U.S., I believe that all people are created equal.
That is not the universal belief.
>> China is sovereign, and we must acknowledge that.
I call BS.
Sovereignty is not an excuse for genocide or child abuse.
Would you accept the abuses described in the NPR report if they happened to you or your children?
Yaa, I heard they're locking kids up in cages, leaving them exposed to Covid.
Oh no, that is what the US is doing to Mexican kids.
We would wish for a better world.
Not all the wishing in the world would make it so.
Just imagine if free and fair trade hadn't happen in the U.S. in 1776.
What would we be, in 1972? I shudder to think.