Originally Posted by
Renathras
Oh, yes, because things that nations have done in the past are totally equatable to things happening today. Yeah, you pulled a little girl's hair when you were 5 years old, so that obviously means you're a domestic abuser and rapist today, right?
And I'm confused, are you defending ISIS? Are you saying "in the grand scheme of things, ISIS isn't really that bad, because other people have done similar things in the past"?
Because, honestly, if you want to look at history, every government, every people group ON. THE. PLANET. has done horrible things in their pasts. But we don't judge (or can't/shouldn't unless we're being abjectly devoid of any sense of rationality or reason) entire people groups, or even individual people, entirely on things done in the past.
When making comparisons, you have to make comparisons between the people alive and actionable TODAY.
No one in the US - TODAY - is in favor of the Trail of Tears, Slavery, and so on. Even Westboro "Baptist Church" isn't doing the things that ISIS does. (And I shudder to even say this, because I think they're horrible Human beings...but they aren't selling women and CHILDREN into sexual slavery and burning people alive, at least...)
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Maybe you'd care to educate yourself on...well, anything, really. Your statement is so devoid of anything approaching a rebuttal to my post that you quoted, it was really not even something I should have to respond to.
I said: "Nothing in the US is equatable to ISIS"
You say: "Oh yeah! What about the US...OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO!!?"
The only real rebuttal needed is: "Nothing in the US - TODAY - is equatable to ISIS. Period."