Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Jedi are extinct their fire has gone out of the universe.

People sometimes do not understand context. Take laws for example. A certain set of law determines weather a minor under 18 can work certain times. For example a 14 year old can't work past ten on a school night. But this law has a context because a little more then a century ago children that age were working fourteen hour shifts. Or things like affirmative action,or equal housing. Not too long ago things like getting a job or a house in a good neighborhood were not always an option for black people. So people who lament 'political correctness' in some ways do not understand the context. How not to long ago it was commonplace for white people to refer to blacks as 'niggers.' How history and events of the past have shaped peoples prospectives.

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