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Originally Posted by Adder
Beinart was pushing back on both "better than them" and "better than that."
Clearly we're not better than that, even if we're better than them.
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What makes it so clear? Due Process and Cruel and Unusual Punishment are either God-given rights or they are not. The Brown and Ferguson cases (actually, non-cases) are all the argument we need on racism and intolerance.
As it happens, I'm pretty convinced that we are better than them, because we still have the right to learn about this, be outraged about it, and, until Top Chef Amputee premieres, talk like some small number of us thinks something should be done. That's a pretty thin thread.
