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So, after the trail of tears, when they were already devastated by the genocide attempts of the $20 bill guy, the Chocktaw nation dug deep into their pockets to personally deliver support money to the Irish people. Now, the Irish People are helping out Choctaw communities hardest hit by the pandemic with donations.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
I don't get why we as a society have to focus on stuff that is at least several decades or centuries old? The civil war, WWII, and other things? I get researching it from a historical perspective, but if it's become a talking point in our social discourse, I see that as an issue. There's no growth that way.
The past matters because it still has a very tangible effect on the present. The Civil War and WWII may have ended long ago but there are still people championing the ideology of the losing sides or crafting political policy based on that ideology, so we need to reckon with that when planning for the future. Reagan has been dead and moldering in his grave for years but his policies have still saddled my entire generation with unshakeable student debt.
"Believe me, there’s nothing so terrible that someone won’t support it."
— Un Lun Dun, China Mieville
I tend to think it matters because most people are VERY weak-willed, and so are prey to the instincts we still have yet to overcome from thousands of years ago. But as Captain Kirk has stated, we can choose not to act on them.
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 2:59 am
...how is international outreach a charity that begins at home? I'm really trying to see eye to eye on this one, but...what?
The support, according to the article, was largely from donations, not government mandated taxation and redistribution. It's not a good deed if your money is taken from you at gun-point for charity, but it is if you decide "You know, these people have been good to us, might as well pay it back".
