The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #148169   Message #3440235
Posted By: mg
22-Nov-12 - 12:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
Subject: RE: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
I totally disagree, and of course I know who is going to be abusive, that we should stay out of troubles in other countries. Sometimes people within a situation don't see it..like fish don't see water..you grow up in apartheid or Jim Crow or a caste system and it seems normal to you. Or if you do see the problems, there are all sorts of pressures on you to go along with it. Should people have not spoken up about apartheid? About slavery? About Dalit people cleaning sewage with their bare hands? About genital mutilation? About the dowry system? Speaking up is how things get fixed, hopefully minimizing bloodshed and violence. And speaking up from afar, particularly in this day and age, can and should be done. It means they speak up against things we do and vise versa. And so the world gets better.