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In reply to the discussion: I heard a story on the radio nooz that disgusted me to my core. In Dallas today, a group of . . . . [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)Based on your comments you are both:
1) Not reading my comments and
2) Have no understanding of what the 3/5ths compromise was about.
They were only counting the slaves as 3/5ths of a person; the slaves didnt have any civil rights. The northern states didn't want to count them at all (they were just slaves) the compromise was that they would only partially count them (3/5ths). It wasn't about civil rights at all.
The fight for inter-racial marriage is a good analogy, because people were being denied their civil rights and bigoted people were behind it. The people behind it were wrong; just as the people who oppose civil unions today are wrong.
I still don't advocate for violence against the bigots or advocate for denying the bigots their civil rights. That was my position in the beginning, and my position has not changed.
Two wrongs do not make a right.