White Supremacists Are Targeting College Campuses Like Never Before

[Aldebaran]

I agree with your sentiment.

However, that's not exactly true. It comes to a matter of semantics in colonial days with chattel white 'indentured servants'. Indentured servitude is hereditary, and many whites were chattel slaves in the time of the American civil war, and we even owned by free black slaves. Due to the caste system white slaves had no 'value'. They were born into the 'class' of slave, so their lives had no worth. Where as black slaves were a traded commodity and even prized above white labor. As sick as it may sound, whites were a dime a dozen, but owning blacks gave you status, and for the most part blacks were treated as prized livestock.

Yeah, I forgot about white people being slaves as well. I was reminded of it when watching the movie 12 Years a Slave.

 

[Landon Caeli]

The current reason why it's ok to do those things to white people is because white people have never been slaves in America. Therefore, it's considered "Social Justice" to give white people a "taste of their own medicine", even though those who engaged in slavery and were the victims of it haven't existed for a very long time since slavery was ended 153 years ago.

A lot of people disagree (including you and I, I'm sure) with the 'eye for an eye' philosophy, particularly Christians, who believe in the 'turn the cheek' philosophy, attributed to Jesus Christ, at his Sermon on the Mount.

You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.​

 

[Landon Caeli]

Social Justice has wicked attributes, if 'eye for an eye' truly is a part of it.

 

[Aldebaran]

Social Justice has wicked attributes, if 'eye for an eye' truly is a part of it.

Only the case here seems to be "Your eye for my great-great grandparent's eye". It would be more understandable if what's going on now was happening during slavery or soon after it was abolished. But when it's 153 years after that point where neither the slaves or their parents, nor the slave owners or even their parents are even alive today to want to take the "eye" of another person based on skin color, it's starting to look like there will be no end to it no matter how much time has passed.

 

[LaSorcia]

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