| Taylor Kingston 2005-08-24, 8:32 pm |
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parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
quote:
> HISTORICAL ILLITERACY
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> <laissez faire economics and Christian charity... seem to recall we had
> a lot more of both around 150 years ago. I seem to recall that racial
> problems were much more severe then, too.> Taylor Kingston
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> More historical illiteracy from Taylor
> Kingston. His 150 years ago puts us into the period
> of Southern feudalism and slavery. Feudalism and
> slavery are the near antithesis of laissez faire and
> Christian charity.
Why assume I was talking about the South? And my comment also applies
to, say, 100 years ago, well after slavery was abolished.
quote:
> The idea that, say, there is an
> identity of thinking between an Andrew Carnegie and a
> John C. Calhoun is often played upon by either
> semi-literate or highly political liberals, though the
> latter, at least, know that Marx himself would be
> spinning in his grave at confounding feudalism with
> capitalism.
Larry, along with your habitual straw-man tactics, among your more
endearing traits are your smug, preening, patronizing,
self-congratulatory displays of pseudo-erudition. Now, if you want to
believe that America's racial problems stem from economic systems, you
have that right. However, the rest of us have the right to consider you
an overinflated gasbag.
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