re: #71 Guanxi88

On a related note, since this oppression has not been the policy of any state or political unit of the state of this Union for well-nigh 45 years, how much longer shall we presume to treat minority groups as if they still cannot recover from the trauma inflicted on them so many years ago? Are currently favored ethnic and gender groups so fragile as to still suffer from events that occurred before they were born? If so, then why the HELL aren’t I still quivering in fear every time I see a Russian or a Pole, given what they did, systematically over several centuries, to my ancestors?

45 years? where do you get that number? you think it all just went away the exact second the civil rights act was passed in the mid 60s? notice how i didn’t just say state, but societal oppression.