[conservatism_IS_compassion]

But the idea that those who were born into slave societies should be condemned decades and centuries later because of how our morals and ethics have evolved in the interim is just idiocy from my perspective.

“But?” That’s precisely what I was trying to convey.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I know, maybe “but” wasn’t the appropriate word. I was more responding to your recitation of D’Souza’s general campaign of trying to shift the “blame” for slavery and segregation from the Republicans, or America, or white people to the Democrats. Yeah, sure, I understand it, but I think it ultimately misses the point.