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In reply to the discussion: Read the Most Brutal Paragraph From Clarence Thomas’ Same-Sex Marriage Dissent [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,657 posts)to enslave people or put them in camps or deny them basic subsistence, because, hey, they don't lose their dignity? Damn, that's downright offensive - but what else would we expect from that guy? He's got all the dignity he needs as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court - a respected position, a comfortable income - but I wonder how "dignified" some of his ancestors felt as someone else's personal possession who was forced to work in the cotton fields and who could be sold, beaten, deprived of comfort, separated from his family, even killed, at the whim of his owner. How "dignified" do people feel when they have lost their jobs and their homes and are living in abject poverty under a bridge? Damn, that's one of the most nastily clueless things I've ever read.