Arthur Brain
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Yes you are.
You are complaining that it should have never been a law to begin with.
But it was a law, AB.
It's not different than today's laws that I don't think should have ever been a law to begin with.
No I'm not. I'm categorically stating that those laws that treat black people as inferior citizens were an absolute load of prejudiced bollocks and it's a blight on humanity's history. Not arguing over the legality of such at the time, just asking you whether you think they were asinine and unjustified in principle also. What's tripping you up here? Why can't you just answer the point away from the laws of the time and just say they were wrong? It's like you're trying 'every which way but loose' to just give a straight answer on it.
Or a 'I don't care either way' what seats on a bus are reserved for who.
If they make a law tomorrow that whites must sit at the back of the bus, I'll be sitting at the back of the bus BECAUSE IT's THE LAW.
And it won't make me feel inferior because of where I'm sitting on a bus.
That bus will take me to my destination no matter where I'm sitting on it.
And that's the whole point of riding a bus in the first place, to get to your destination.
Fussing about what seat you can sit in is just nitpicking because the purpose of the bus is to get you to your destination, and it will do that no matter where you are sitting.
Mission accomplished.
Oh please. You're not thick Tambora so stop trying to make this literally about sitting on a designated area on some form of public transport. You know damn well the principle in play here so stop evading the point. You know fine well that that people were being treat as inferior and frankly I don't buy that you wouldn't be absolutely up in arms over any such infringement on your personal rights even if such a law were passed tomorrow where women weren't allowed to post on the internet. Hey, you might stay within the law but don't kid anyone for a second that you wouldn't be seething if your personal liberties had been overturned and utterly unfairly at that.
Now how about you just consider for a second just what it was like for people who had to put up with being treat like crap just because their skin colour wasn't the same as yours?
Nope.
It's been in practice for thousands of years, and I don't recall GOD ever condemning it.
When you think of slavery, you conjure an image of Hollywood's Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin or the KKK.
I've read about slavery in many cultures throughout history, so the image I conjure is not so limited.
I don't conjure any such imagery at all as it goes but then it's not surprising you'd automatically jump to such a conclusion. In a modern and supposedly civilized world there's just no place for it.