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To: Alex MG who wrote (475120)

6/21/2021 1:05:21 AM

From: koan

Respond to of 542832

In the aggregate things are getting better for women, minorities and the LGBTQ community and civilization in general.

Compare the EU to two world wars last century!

Women could not even vote 100 years ago, and all minorities were treated like shit. Black chain gangs in the south and institutional segregation, no blacks in the military, Japanese were put in camps and the Chinese were horribly treated and exploited as were latino's.

And the LGTBTQ community had to stay hidden, and today they can legally marry.

Today we have civil rights legislation and women are being voted into congress in increasing numbers.

And it is an important distinction that slavery is outlawed every place on earth.

Surely you can look at history and see the huge changes for the better from only 100 years ago!

And interracial marriage is a non event in most parts of the country.

You can't just dismiss all of that as utopian thinking.

As Steven Pinker said in his book" The Nature of our better angels", things have never been this peaceful!

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There are highly educated people who are monsters and charlatans

And the world actually seems to be drifting to authoritarian rulers

I'm not seeing the same as your Utopian view...

there's still slavery in the world, just not technically legal

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In 2018, the Global Slavery Index estimated that there are approximately 3.8 million people enslaved in China. Most of these slaves work in the manufacturing sector. In 2020, the USA warned American businesses against the use of supply chains utilizing Chinese facilities that use slave labor