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In reply to the discussion: Liberal Racism: 25 Things I Learned After I Wrote About ISIS and White Racism at the Daily Kos [View all]qazplm
(3,626 posts)doesn't mean it's not unthinkable.
We dropped the nuke before too, but that doesn't mean it's all fair game. Different time, and you know folks, cultures, societies and humans grow over time.
Most of the world IS above what ISIS did now. We weren't in the past, but slavery is in the past too for us, does that mean we can't speak out against slavery in the present because we don't have clean hands forever going back?
ISIS is a small group of folks doing very bad things that need to be stopped, and those bad things need to be called out. Seems to me, doing both is a good thing, and we shouldn't discourage doing a good thing simply because bad things were done in the past.
If someone comes along and says, "we'd never ever do that" then fine, remind them of this. Otherwise, I don't see the benefit of every time some other group does something bad, we have to spend time repenting for ill we've done before we can address it.