So is that an excuse to do nothing to stop further injustices.



>From: ned heite <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: cultural relativism
>Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 07:28:57 -0500
>
>Here we are, sitting in America, criticizing the Taliban, but
>forgetting our own history.
>
>Aren't we the nation that sent an army against the Mormons and then
>required them to change one of their religious tenets in exchange for
>statehood? Aren't we the country that refuses vital aid to health
>agencies in nations where certain medical practices are encouraged as
>part of family planning?  Aren't we the country that turned back
>Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany?
>
>It seems strange to me that we can be so pious about bigotry when we
>have people in leadership like Jesse Helms, John Ashcroft, Antonin
>Scalia, Rudy Guiliani, and Strom Thurmond. I see little difference
>between this Taliban position and McCarthyism, the Red Scare, or most
>anything J. Edgar Hoover did.
>
>Let the nation taht is without sin cast the first stone.
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