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(I'd have said MUCH WORSE to the teacher.)
The U.S. has made progress since then; and has also freed people across the world from oppression.
What has, say, France done, besides the Terror and the Vichy government in WW II?
Or the great waves of freedom in Russia, China, and Cambodia...?
(Ask the teacher, quoting from The Population Bomb, what should be done about India. Only tell them the source till later. Or do the same with the Unabomber Manifesto.)
Cheers!
Stay polite and don’t back down. Remind him that no developed nor undeveloped country at that time had multi-ethnic and co-ed forms of gov’t. Then remind him that those White Christians who he’s criticizing (use the term “White Christians”) laid the foundation for the very idea of a mulit-ethnic co-ed power sharing society to be possible.