Rick Monteverde wrote:
>> Many right-wing commentators believe the trends are opposite,
>> and that freedom and self determination is decreasing.
>> These people don't know much about history.
What I wrote was a right-wing comment, precisely because I, as do "these
people", know enough about history . . .
Ah, then you know the wrong history, or you misinterpret it, you poor dears.
I wish I could cram you people into a time machine and send you back
to the year 1840. I would give you a beard and plunk you down in New
England, where people would beat the bejezus out of you for looking
different, the way they used to beat up homosexuals when I was young.
Or a black person in Georgia. Or a homosexual or woman anywhere. You
would soon see how much freedom most people in the past had!
- Jed
