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Explain Like I'm Five
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Yeah I'm Aussie, and as soon as I learned about the Philly police firebombing a black neighbourhood, I knew you guys were supremely fucked.
And yeah Native Americans called it. I've learned that how a government and society treats a minority, is how they can eventually treat everyone. Or put another way, any rights you think you have over the member of society with the least rights is illusory.
yup. a society is only as just as it treats its most marginalized member. everyone else is just on a waiting list