Reply #25: The 2 greatest sins in human history was the decision to sell other human beings as commodities... [View All]

and the Nazis' 'new world order'. I'm not black or Jewish or Romani but the minute that someone claims to share victimization at a level with the people or descendants of those impacted by those policies, I generally assume they are either willfully obtuse or profoundly under-educated.

I've walked into stores in liberal NYC with my former college roommate - Hopkins-Stanford Med grad where it was crystal clear to me that they thought my beautiful friend could be a shoplifter. Happily she's mastered the 'fuck you, I'm a doctor and you're a clerk routine' quite civilly. But why the hell should she have to do so?

Awhile back, she moved to a new med practice in an area which I'd describe as a 'town and gown area' i.e. university profs mixed with suburbanites and rural types. To her shock, the practice put an ad in the local paper about her and another new doc starting at the same time. (I say 'to her shock' because she learned of the ad right after she moved to the area and was standing in the line at a supermarket and had the woman behind her say 'hi! you're one of the new docs in town, right?' She thought she'd lost her mind until the woman told her about the ad.)

Not long afterwards, she told me about seeing a patient from one of the nearby rural areas who went out of his way to demand to see her. (I think he was a farmer.) His reason? If she was a black and had made it to being a doctor, she had to be a genius and he wanted her as his doctor! I'll say it again: why the hell should she have to put up with such crap?

Slavery is a deplorable fact existing throughout mankind's history but prior to the Middle Passage, it was by and large the product of war and conquest, not commerce. The only thing that comes anywhere remotely close to the kidnapping and sale of Africans a few hundred years ago IMO is the growing wave of women from all over the world now being lured and kidnapped into sexual slavery/prostitution. The fact that so many people are willing to confuse that with sexual expression is just mind-boggling to me. (Legalize prostitution! Give them health plans! Right. I've no doubt that the mobsters involved are just itching to establish Hooker HMOs.) But I guess the rationalization for selling Africans a few hundred years ago seemed equally sensible.

God help us if a new Nazi-like regime with real power was actually ever resurrected.