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  • The problem with the 2nd amendment isn’t that it wasn’t updated, it’s that it was.

    The 14th amendment incorporated the other amendments such that they did not only restrict the power of the federal government upon the states and citizens, as the founders intended, but also restricted the states (so you couldn’t have southern states being evil to their citizens).

    But the 2nd amendment was incorporated radically under Heller, when it should have been incorporated in a more moderate way, such that regulations were possible, within reason, not the wild-west that Heller imposed.

    The 13th should have been reinterpreted by the courts such that many of our current forms of incarcerated service were considered beyond the line and became de facto slavery, particularly when imposed by southern states as they were.

    Honestly the fundamental problem with post-bellum American jurisprudence was giving southern states any benefit of the doubt of being remotely human when they repeatedly violated every such standard.







  • They lived in the entire US, particularly the south, as did millions of slaves who suffered centuries of genocidal brutality and worse.

    And as a non-white American , you are infinitely full of shit.

    I’ve lived in most of the country, I have NEVER experienced such utter and brutal racism as in the vile, depraved south.

    This is because after the civil war we let the slaver class live in the south, and they just took over as soon as our back was turned.

    Worst decision in this country’s history, we would be so much greater of a nation if we’d simply dealt with the problem then instead of letting their filth fester and spread. Notice how Germany is a good country nowadays while the south is still as worthless as ever.

    Indiana had racism, but comparing it to the south is like comparing a sneeze and ebola.











  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs "retard" a slur?
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    So, actually in the south the term was ‘retargeted’ by the (sub) - urban elite to mean yeoman farmers who worked the fields and had suntan on their necks.

    I respect the original term, but the colloquial has reverted to ‘ignorant, racist southerner’, for good or ill.

    If you have a better term for it I’m all ears, but it’s not like there isn’t a need for a category given their behavior.


  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs "retard" a slur?
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    They changed the underlying medical term, ‘mental retardation’ to ‘developmentally disabled’ in a form of lingual whack-a-mole since the old term was being used as an insult.

    Once it lost its meaning as a short form of the medical term, it became a slur, much like we don’t call black people the n-word anymore.