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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:03:26 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

>On 12/11/24 09:39, quadibloc wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:56:54 +0000, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>=20
>>> =A0=A0=A0=A0Like Ghandi I believe that Western Civilization would
>>> be a good idea but I fail to see where it has arrived.
>>=20
>> Not long after Gandhi's quip, though, came the partition of India in
>> 1947.
>>=20
>> Say what you will about the industrialized nations of the West, but =
they
>> have
>> outbreaks of what India calls "communal violence" rather less often =
than
>> India. And today India is governed by the BJP and its leader Narendra
>> Modi,
>> who openly favors Hindu supremacy.
>
>We in the USA, have outbreaks of individual violence, attacks on=20
>schools, churches, synagogues and temples.
>	In 2020 on January 6 we had communal violence.
>	Before that we had frequent communal violence directed
>toward African-Americans and referred to as Lynching =20

Don't forget the old-style race riots -- the ones where White rioters
destroyed African-American neighborhoods.

That's why Watts was so shocking -- African-Americans were doing it to
themselves.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"