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To: GOPJ
Funny how the idea of 're-education' camps has become part of the American reality.

You mean like forcefully take children from their homes, not let them have contact with their families, not let them speak their native tongue, even change their mode of dress...

Nothing new here, it was done in the 1800s and later. They called them "Indian Schools".

215 posted on 11/21/2010 6:15:51 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

GMTA


237 posted on 11/22/2010 5:54:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Those weren't reeducation camps in the way I was using the term... But that doesn't negate how horrible they were.

Forcing tribes to be more like the ideal of the ruling elite is what happened to the Indians. It's what modern day liberals try to do to the rest of us today.

It's very similar to what happened to the Indians. Liberals are forcing us to eat their 'healthy' food ( as THEY define it), driving the cars THEY feel are 'green', thinking the 'correct' thoughts - the PC ones... AS THEY SEE IT etc.

There have always been control freaks who felt they had the right to impose their standards on the rest of us.

Trust me, the liberals of today are no different in their 'superior attitude' than the idiots who tried to destroy the Indian cultures for the 'betterment' of the ignorant Indian. Conservatives are subjected to that type of superiority every day... in the media, on TV, in the movies, with the Daily Show type comics... endless put downs of "our" culture - which they derisively refer to as guns, God, and religion...

246 posted on 11/22/2010 7:17:38 AM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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