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Old 05-06-2010, 05:46 AM   #1
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Therefore, the first rule of policy-making should be, don’t promulgate a policy that will destroy social bonds. If you take tribes of people, exile them from their homelands and ship them to strange, arid lands, you’re going to produce bad outcomes for generations.
This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.
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Old 05-06-2010, 08:13 AM   #2
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I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.
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Old 05-06-2010, 11:11 AM   #3
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I propose a constitutional ammendment that all American citizens must become Asian.
Take THAT, premise of this article!
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:00 AM   #4
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This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.
But but but. . . .
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Roughly a century ago, many Swedes immigrated to America. They’ve done very well here. Only about 6.7 percent of Swedish-Americans live in poverty. Also a century ago, many Swedes decided to remain in Sweden. They’ve done well there, too. When two economists calculated Swedish poverty rates according to the American standard, they found that 6.7 percent of the Swedes in Sweden were living in poverty.
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Old 05-06-2010, 10:01 AM   #5
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But but but. . . .
I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.
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Old 05-06-2010, 11:04 AM   #6
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I don't remember that Jim Crow laws targetted Swedes.
Revisionist history
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Old 05-07-2010, 10:09 AM   #7
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This is important, for those people who think the civil rights abuses of yesteryear don't affect life chances today for those groups involved.
At some point you have to end the mentality of Victimhood as a way to define who you are and who you want your children to be.
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Old 05-08-2010, 11:06 PM   #8
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At some point you have to end the mentality of Victimhood as a way to define who you are and who you want your children to be.
An essential, and one certain of our opponents (and much of the Democratic Party) miss in us and lack in themselves.

That is enough to make you vote against every Democratic candidate in range.
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