We are not emulating China. I never said we WERE, and I wish you would be kind enough to read my posts in their entirety without a jaundiced view or knee jerk reaction. Btw, South Africa has her problems, particularly when it comes to "reverse" - if you want to call it that - racism. But South Africa has and had a very different situation than post Civil War USA.
I suppose philosophically you would insist any defeated to admit they are wrong, show contrition, on a certain level grovel for forgiveness and keep a low profile. Well guess what. That's exactly the tact Europe took post WWI and, in conjunction with Europe's exacting punitive reparations, Hitler happened. And he darn near conquered Europe. So after WW II, thankfully, more level heads prevailed and supported the reconstruction efforts of Germany and stopped reminding them of the past so they could look AHEAD. Nobody - except a failed attempt by Stalin - tried to rob the German people of their identity. Pride is probably the second most important psychological pillar to which a human relies, which is why - when it is destroyed - it gives way to atrocities. We NEVER want to leave people physically OR psychologically with nothing to lose, especially when they make up thirty five percent or more of the population. But we did leave the South in rubble, and we didn't do much to fix it. Our only saving grace was the restoration of citizenry that Lincoln's predecessor wisely bestowed.
We disagree that Johnson failed. He did not fail. It was his action that continued to strengthen black pride that in turn resulted in black activism on a level never seen before in this nation. Thanks!!
What I find so infuriating is your misprison of history, casual dismissal of your previous statements, and manipulative pusillanimity - oh and your willingness to deliberately misstate other peoples' positions. It's amusing, in one sense, to see how well you think you are disguising your doctrinaire positions. But, I call "bullshit". I do read your posts, but they are ephemeral and insubstantial and don't hide the underlying intent all that well.
YOU intimated that "we" (whomever that was intended to imply) were going to down the path of Chinese Communists... (" you are setting the same stage that Mao Zedong set when he established the Communist party in 1949") which is entirely bullshit and is an
equivalency argument. You deliberately sandwiched "guilt tripping" between "brutality" and "torture". Your argument that "the only hope we have have is to make allowances, forgive, accept" only applies to
your side, conveniently. You minimize the
ongoing misbehavior and want to use that to push the camel's nose under the tent to further
your philosophical viewpoint, but are, in fact, continuing to engage (ever so
subtly) in the very behavior you are attempting to chastise. Why is is only
progressive ideas are dangerous? How is it that only
conservative repressive behaviors needs to be "accepted" and given "allowance"? How is it that you conveniently elided the
denazification process that allowed the rebirth of modern Germany
with the aid of the United States after WWII? How is it that Johnson
succeeded when his actions entrenched
de jure suppression and disenfranchisement of blacks throughout the South? Your "version" of history conveniently leaves out the important parts.
I am not some "knee jerk partisan", as you so eloquently and inelegantly assert (frequently), rather I am a realist who sees what's underneath the rhetoric, and I recognize it for what it is.
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n what planet? In what universe? This is not the reality we are contending with, nor are we emulating China or any other repressive regime (yet another element of the deception plan). You know where the term "unreconstructed" came from? That is the model you are proposing.
