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Dead is a defeatist attitude. If a countryfolk thinks their country is dead because there are unsolved problems, then the country is dead for real. Defeatists d

Dead is a defeatist attitude. If a countryfolk thinks their country is dead because there are unsolved problems, then the country is dead for real. Defeatists didn't end slavery, end jim crow, win the right to vote. We've been far worse, and we'll get a lot better because there are countryfolk like the ones creating this tooling to fight police brutality.

wizzwizz4 6y ago
> Defeatists didn't end slavery No, but the people in charge then created the Jim Crow laws, which extended beyond the slavery states. > end Jim crow But not its continued influence – not yet. Meanwhile, it's having a resurgence; white supremacist violence is the biggest form of domestic terrorism, and even the President was revoking anti-discrimination legislation as of last week (not in the sensible way that would've had benefits elsewhere, but in the impulsive "I don't like this" way). > win the right to vote. Which isn't afforded to criminals – good thing all the illegal things are bad. Apart from numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number Oh, and apparently disenfranchisement of "legitimate" citizens is also increasing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/is-america-a-democracy-if-so-why-does-it-deny-millions-the-vote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/is-america-a... If a macro is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against police brutality, then something is seriously wrong. No, defeatists don't tend to solve problems, but no unacknowledged problem was ever solved. If you want to solve a problem, start by confronting its extent.