Unrest in Sri Lanka

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Originally Posted by Leo656

There are people Right Now in states like Texas and Mississippi who argue that desegregated schools "ruined" the public school system. More than half a century since it was "a settled issue", people are still banging the drum that their little Klan Members In Training shouldn't have to sit on the bus or at the lunch table with a black kid. And lest we forget, the only way desegregation even happened was by armed soldiers escorting little black children into those schools to protect them. Otherwise they'd have been lynched, and that would be allowed, if left up to the people in those states. And people are actively pushing to set us back to that point in time, arguing that all the racial tension recently "proves" that "segregation doesn't work, we need to stick to our own for everyone's benefit." And some of those people have Actual Power to see it done, if allowed.

Sometimes "progress" can't be left up to individuals, because people are bigoted and stupid. Sometimes you HAVE to force it and tell them "Tough luck if you don't like it." Otherwise nothing ever gets done.

If "States' Rights" were allowed to gain traction, half the country would still have Whites Only signs everywhere, and you'd be allowed to kick gay people out of your restaurant just for being gay. Right now in Tennessee, they're trying to allow businesses to put up "No Jews Allowed" signs and refuse service, so long as there's another business in the immediate area that will serve the Jews. Tell me that doesn't sound like Nazi Germany in its formative years and I'll laugh in your f*cking face.

We're headed right back to a segregated society. Both the left and the right (yes, don't f*cking deny that the right is pushing for this as well) continue to chant that they want segregation, and to keep different cultures and race from 'mixing'. It's so depressing that all the progress that was made decades ago is becoming undone. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing signs with stuff like "No Whites Allowed" and "No Blacks/Jews/LGBT/Latinos/Asians Allowed". We'll see more and more rights stripped as well until we all end up living in a dystopian nightmare where we have to risk being rejected from buying a bag of chips due to not meeting some criteria the shop owners set. Fun times up ahead.