The official embrace of torture qualifies as one of the most shameful chapters in US history not just for what was inflicted on its victims, but for what we inflicted on ourselves by tolerating it. We MUST take this opportunity, however inadequate, to repudiate this evil.
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The official use of torture post 9/11 was the first time I saw my country cross a line I didn't think we would cross. Sadly, it hasn't been the last.
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Replying to @mattblaze
I felt the same, but in retrospect I feel deceived by that feeling. The lines it crosses every day, in ways people from backgrounds like ours didn't often get to see, against many here in the US, are at least as bad albeit in different ways.
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What bothers me, and horrifies me, most is that when we DID see it, we collectively said "ok, fine:". THAT was when the line was crossed.
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That's not what I saw. I saw a despicable segment of our society saying that, and a lot of good people doing their best to oppose it despite gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, infiltration and subversion of movements, ...
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