war suggests a sort of equivalence where both sides have equal chance of winning. But social justice is more like guerrillas
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Replying to @vgr
not really, you can have war where enemy completely defeated easily
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without a genocide, they usually regroup and come back for another round. But with disruption, usually not.
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Replying to @turrible_tao @vgr
if you win, propagandize such that any other thought not even possible, seems like good guys won in black and white whole time
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it's not history I'm talking about, it's actual ground conditions. No question that conditions for blacks are better than 1850
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the improvement is probably because america experienced being the epicenter of an energy revolution on top of a post war boom
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which makes everyone better off, slavery might have ended on its own and the southern pro slavery norms were result of 100 yrs of
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doubt it. The economic historians tend to overstate that case. The freedom-sickness thing is a constant in history
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if getting rid of slavery killed 1/4 of slaves and forced them into a similar arrangement but around debt, I would not date their
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Freedom is a skill. See recent data on Swiss suicides due to loosening of military service culture http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/switzerland-military-gun-suicide/499028/ …
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