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Well Roachboy I think our arguments more closely paralell than intersect, though in a very confusing manner.
I agree that we need to learn from the lessons of the past, and apply them towards today. However the manner in which the vast majority, in reality or appearance, attempt to make us learn from the past grinds gears and forces us into a polarization. Take Ward Churchill for example. He has very valid points about what we did to the Native Cultures during the hundreds of years of Indian Wars. However, the manner in which he conveys his points, and the conclusions he draws, purposefully or simply in an attempt to draw attention, is absolutely rediculous. He does not try to get us to think rationally about what has happened, and how we can alter our own situation in order to have learned and adapted from it. Instead he effectively calls the 9/11 terrorists heroes, and those killed Nazis because they were born into a profitable area instead of those unlucky enough to be born on a reservation.
Once again we paralell each other a great deal, it's the manner in which many people who wish us to think differently and rationally about our own culture that breed polarization through rediculous claims. Then again, this could be easily blamed more thoughoughly through the 24 hour, 3 minute per story media which only want to show the most ludacris professors in order to draw attention.
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