[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:


> [Case]
> I don't see any Muslims on your list but the best estimate of American
> genocide of native people suggests that the population of North American
> peoples was between 1.2 and 12 million in 1492. It was reduced to under
> 250,000 by 1900.

Best estimate by whom, Ward Churchill?

> [Case]
> I do not feel guilty for act that I did not commit. (I have plenty to keep
> me awake at night on that score.) But to feel no shame that your government
> did these things is another matter. That it has not repented is even worse.
> But to claim that we are morally superior because we are a bit behind in the
> numbers games is morally reprehensible.

If you want to feel shame for something you didn't do, be my guest. Collective
shame is no more sensible than collective ideas.

Platt







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