On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Sean Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed: what would you think of a program which advocated the > deportation of all African Americans? It sounds a little racist, eh? > Well that was one of the big abolitionist ideas--free the slaves and > send them back to Africa where they can have their own country > (Liberia). IIRC, it was actually the plan that Harriet Beecher Stowe > puts forward as the supposedly genius conclusion to Uncle Tom's Cabin. > Bad Idea: Good people. No?
This is true and we can easily think of many more examples (Chartists in 18'th century Britain who excluded women, healthcare reformists today who exclude immigrants and so on). This is actually why I found David's original question so problematic: is it not possible to make similar apologies for Mussolini and his kind? (Hitler is so much of an sociopath that it'd be hard in his case, but perhaps one could say of Mussolini, sure he was a bloody dictator but he followed highly progressive redistributionist policies etc). Does this all come down to a mere Cost/Benefit analysis? I hope not! -raghu. -- Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
