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Originally Posted by Eric
The "non person" argument has been used before, as has labelling certain individuals and groups as sub-human. The KKK labelled blacks as sub humans and then proceded to lynch them ... the Aryan Nations still thinks this is cool. What surprises me, altho after all these years of seeing it I should be immune to the surprise, is how little it takes to turn normal, nice, law abiding people to turn into a howling lynch mob. That pensioners and veterans are poor is a totally different issue. It has nothing to do with civil rights and a lot to do with goverment allowing an obscenely inequitable distribution of the national wealth. Is it your argument that if prisoners were deprived of their civil rights and housed in uncivilised conditions, pensioners and veterans would all of a sudden be better off? I don't be bloody well thinking so.
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No I don't think so either, I'm not so stupid or naive. I simply make the point that more consideration is given to the so-called rights of those who have denied "rights" to others than is given to the rights of more deserving members of society. Should I be castigated for pointing this out?
I am not a subscriber to KKK (or Nazi) thinking in relation to any "sub-human" section of society. Nor am I, in any way, a potential member of a howling lynch mob and I resent the implication that I might be.