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Re: Agreed

Posted by Baldur on 2011-December-11 02:48:33 EST, Sunday
In reply to Agreed posted by Markaba on 2011-December-11 02:34:02 EST, Sunday
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"It doesn't take a genius to realize that the desperation of our condition tends to breed anti-government sentiments at every level of the posters' ideology, which makes it all too suspect."

Or, perhaps, our situation allows the abuses of government to be far more obvious to us than to those who have not been abused by the government.

Of course, we are not the only party to be systematically abused by government. Many of these abuses are also quite obvious to other minorities, including blacks and American Indians in the United States, and Arabs and Muslims in several Western countries. As a hidden minority we have a similar perspective to the homosexuals prior to the 1970s, but without the ideological baggage which they have since acquired. This perspective is especially rare as many of us are in a position to understand the perspectives of both minorities and the majority, and quite a few of us can even approach the issues with a substantial degree of education.

"This is not a real debate forum"

Well, we are not so much about debate here as about discussion - and as I noted in my reply to Minstrel, I believe that GC is one of the best discussion forums on the net. Not only is GC visited by far more people than most of us imagine, but we are visited by a lot of bright people, most of whom never post - and I find ideas that are posted here often seem to percolate into the public consciousness, and not infrequently come back to me by way of co-workers or random people I meet, many of whom I expect have never read the board themselves.



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