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The fact that he wrote this in 1968 is really amazing. How many people in 1968 would not have felt compelled to respond to the girl in a compassionate way?
by ahuth 12y ago
The fact that he wrote this in 1968 is really amazing. How many people in 1968 would not have felt compelled to respond to the girl in a compassionate way?
- saraid216 12y agoI'm less impressed by Mr. Nimoy here, considering that his colleagues would perform the first interracial kiss on-screen later that year, and more bothered that substituting "1968" with "today" in your question doesn't make the answer obvious either.
- aaron695 12y agoDo you seriously think people in 1968 were different to people today? People have always been people, they are and always have been intrinsically nice to others at a personal level. Most people then and now would have responded in a compassionate way. It's in groups and at higher levels they can be more uncaring.
- chris_wot 12y agoNot necessarily. The unpopular point of view is that some are just prejudiced, regardless of the group that surrounds them.
- bane 12y agoIf you want something to really blow your mind, in my state, just 1 year prior to this article, it was illegal for white and black people to get married and have sex. She would have literally been the product of an illegal act. That's a pretty fucked up burden to grow up with and only hints at the kind of twisted cultural thinking that would vote such a law into existence.