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Everyone says this but reality never seems to work out that way when push comes to shove. Will you be singing that tune when a religious minority you hate move
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
Everyone says this but reality never seems to work out that way when push comes to shove.
Will you be singing that tune when a religious minority you hate moves there, establishes a theocratic government, starts teaching women to read, hanging undesirables and troublemakers and regressing on pretty much every human right your ancestors died for, bonus points for starting a war with the locals.
That said, in the historical example I'm referencing the state was too weak to do much about them from afar and they did clean itself up after subsequent immigration diluted their culture over the following 100yr. God what a bunch of assholes they were in the meantime though...
- tdba 4y agoYou are of course talking about the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoI was thinking the English settlement of eastern Massachusetts and the Connecticut river valley but I guess that works too.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI refuse to get involved in Martian politics. You can CIA them however you want though. I'm sure you can find just as many instances where foreign meddling and infantilization of people had disastrous consequences. You'll be happy to know that you can appreciate their input on Earth matters as much as they'll appreciate yours on martian matters.