Appomattox Court House and Lincoln's Assassination

From Lee's Surrender to Grant to Lincoln's Assassination

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[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Finally the fact that the Soviet Union, the British Empire or Genghis Khan committed crimes in the past doesn’t justify the actions of the US today. So don’t point your finger at them. It’s your responsibility as a citizen what your government or the armed forces of your country does today.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs It’s a problem everywhere in the West how to integrate the immigrants in a society and how to avoid pushing them on the fringes of society. Honestly, I don’t think that Europe is behind the US regarding this issue especially since the US is the only western country I know of which uses racial profiling and registers the race of those who enter the country. One would think that’s a weird habit form a country which “leads the way” in the struggle against racial discrimination.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs The immigration of Latin Americans however is a completely different case in the US because the government can’t efficiently filter those immigrants. Thus many poorly educated immigrants arrive in the US every year who live in slums and take the worst jobs possible. Now this picture is not that different from the situation of the poor African and Turkish immigrants in Europe.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Moreover, Europeans don’t KEEP the immigrants in slums. This situation is not the part of Europeans’ clever plan to screw with these people. If you take a look at a map, you will see that the US don’t have problems with the African and the Asian immigrants because America is in the middle of nowhere between two oceans. It’s hard for these people to illegally enter the US this way and the US can filter the rest. The US can choose who to let in from Africa, Asia or Europe.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs If you think this way, you can also say that the Navajos are racists because they have mostly Navajo representatives or the entire African continent is racist because they don’t have white presidents, not to mention Asia because following your logic they are extremely racists. Neither India nor China or Japan ever have elected either a white or a black man as their president.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs At this point I think it’s worth asking why you think that if for example the Danes in Denmark don’t have a Pakistani prime minister they are necessarily more racist than the American society which in fact consists entirely of immigrants or the descendants of immigrants (apart from the few remaining natives, of course).

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs In this case I agree with you.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs To your American Bias question you can find the answer among my old comments posted about 6 months ago. Khan claims his mission is to teach students around the world and I think usually he's very good but if he wants to teach history around the world he has to consider the non-american viewpoint as well. So far he failed to do that and that's my problem.

[5thfirefly]

@EatYeFigs Don’t even get me started on slavery, racial and political discrimination in the US or the countless other wars since the War of Independence. France actually seems like a very peaceful country compared to the US, not to mention that France has a bit longer history than the US so it’s not even fair to compare the two. Moreover, I don’t recall any of those huge American efforts to help Africa which you would like to see from the Europeans.