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Mormons were prosecuted too. Kicked out of Missouri. They GTFO'd and trekked west and established new settlements. Jews also have a history of prejudice, yet th

Mormons were prosecuted too. Kicked out of Missouri. They GTFO'd and trekked west and established new settlements. Jews also have a history of prejudice, yet they seem to always leave their next generation better off. At some point people just have to fight for what's theirs in this world, not always gonna be someone to help us up.

Schiendelman 6y ago
That view is unreasonable and those are deeply incomparable examples.
simoom22 6y ago
Yeah, that's really not so different from being sold naked in irons at slave auctions for centuries. Also similar is the way everyone can identify jews by the star on their foreheads, and mormons by the bright glow of their genitals.
tehwebguy 6y ago
The Mormons kicked out of Missouri were free people before and after. They had access to all kinds of resources, were allowed to get an education, own land, accumulate wealth and (with limited exceptions) vote, etc. Meanwhile basically all Black people in America were enslaved for the next 30 years, millions died under slavery and millions were suddenly freed and given nothing. "Separate but equal" wasn't even for another 30 years and segregation & Jim Crow were another 70 years after that! By the time Black people were reasonably allowed to participate in US society, politics & business they had been forcibly held back in the only ways to get ahead (accumulating education, land and money) by hundreds of years.
- omegaworks 6y ago
  Yes. Any wealth accumulation even by free Black communities was repeatedly undermined and destroyed. The bombing of Black Wall Street (Greenwood-Tulsa) is the most infamous example: the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. Numerous examples exist of freedman communities being completely eradicated using public works projects. Entire towns flooded when it came to decisions to create dams and neighborhoods bulldozed when the interstate expressways were run through cities. https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1375263363471654918?s=20 https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/13752633634716549...
  - dragonwriter 6y ago
    > the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. They weren't the only aerial bombings in the continental US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Schiendelman 6y ago

That view is unreasonable and those are deeply incomparable examples.

simoom22 6y ago

Yeah, that's really not so different from being sold naked in irons at slave auctions for centuries. Also similar is the way everyone can identify jews by the star on their foreheads, and mormons by the bright glow of their genitals.

tehwebguy 6y ago

The Mormons kicked out of Missouri were free people before and after. They had access to all kinds of resources, were allowed to get an education, own land, accumulate wealth and (with limited exceptions) vote, etc. Meanwhile basically all Black people in America were enslaved for the next 30 years, millions died under slavery and millions were suddenly freed and given nothing. "Separate but equal" wasn't even for another 30 years and segregation & Jim Crow were another 70 years after that! By the time Black people were reasonably allowed to participate in US society, politics & business they had been forcibly held back in the only ways to get ahead (accumulating education, land and money) by hundreds of years.

omegaworks 6y ago
Yes. Any wealth accumulation even by free Black communities was repeatedly undermined and destroyed. The bombing of Black Wall Street (Greenwood-Tulsa) is the most infamous example: the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. Numerous examples exist of freedman communities being completely eradicated using public works projects. Entire towns flooded when it came to decisions to create dams and neighborhoods bulldozed when the interstate expressways were run through cities. https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/1375263363471654918?s=20 https://twitter.com/ericabuddington/status/13752633634716549...
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > the only air bombings to be set upon the continental United States were a campaign of racial terror. They weren't the only aerial bombings in the continental US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing