[Peace-discuss] From the editor of the liberal New Republic

[C. G. Estabrook]

Actually, the denial of that statement is a pretty good paraphrase of the
Declaration of Independence.

In its present form, it's an explanation for the extirpation of the Indians: one 
could find a close paraphrase in, say, Theodore Roosevelt, to "The aboriginal 
Americans need to be governed (at least) by European settlers, because they do 
not yet have the attributes to allow them to live peacefully alongside 
Euro-Americans without threatening their civilian populations." Of course Teddy 
said it better, but his racism was as consistent as Marty's. --CGE


Karen Medina wrote:
>> I was thinking "Anti-Semitic."
> 
> Yes, racist. But I rather like the editing I did to the statement.
> 
>>>> [Suppose I asserted, "The <fill-in-any-country's-name,
>>>> or-any-group-like-a-gender> need to be governed by <foreign
>>>> powers-or-any-outside-group>, because they do not have yet the
>>>> attributes to allow them to live peacefully alongside
>>>> <fill-in-a-group-of-neighbors> without threatening their civilian
>>>> populations."  What would the response be?  --CGE]
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