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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts) Sun Feb 26, 2017, 04:22 PM Feb 2017

Re: the "Lost Cause", while it must feel awful to be on the losing side of a civil war...

....it must really feel awful to have your very humanity STOLEN from you and then denied to you and every generation of your descendants over multiple centuries, and to have every victory - however large or small - in your battle for your right to be treated like a human being worthy of basic respect and acknowledgment of your humanity - to have every gain in that struggle trigger an angry, spiteful, even violent backlash from the descendants (literally and/or ideologically, broadly speaking) of the same people who stole the basic humanity of your ancestors from them and their descendants (including you).

One of these is not like the other.

- My $0.02.

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Re: the "Lost Cause", while it must feel awful to be on the losing side of a civil war... (Original Post) YoungDemCA Feb 2017 OP

I'm sure you are correct. aikoaiko Feb 2017 #1

This makes it better! JustAnotherGen Feb 2017 #2

aikoaiko

(34,214 posts)

1. I'm sure you are correct.

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Tue Feb 28, 2017, 10:07 AM

Feb 2017

JustAnotherGen

(38,109 posts)

2. This makes it better!

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2017, 11:26 AM

Feb 2017

http://www.democraticunderground.com/118760372

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