Really? You think racial segregation is worse than homicide bombing?okay, okay, I could have used a better example. The Holocaust was a better example. It's really not a contest and I could have used better phrasing than ""I can't imagine anything as bad today as ...".
But then, I am fairly aware of the exaggerations in the descriptions of Jim Crow.Maybe they will have a conference in Tehran on this.
"Holocaust was a better example. It's really not a contest"
The 20 million Ukrainians murdered by Stalin is no comparison with the 6 million Jews murdered by Hitler? How about the Turks' attempt to wipe out the Armenians?
"The point was people have been doing bad stuff to each other since the dawn of time."
Yes, that's true.
"Every generation thinks now is the worst ever. One of them will be right but I doubt it's this generation."
There's no need to phrase it as a dichotomy of "worst ever" and "all in your imagination." Things do get better and worse in given locations over the centuries and even decades. It seems to me that things in Western Civilization are getting much worse very quickly.
"Maybe they will have a conference in Tehran on (the exaggerations in the descriptions of Jim Crow)."
Whether they do, or whether they don't, it won't affect the truth at all.
For instance, one piece of information that is now nearly impossible to find is that the Montgomery Jim Crow law that Rosa Parks violated did not have broad support among the white citizens of Montgomery.
It was ramrodded by a minority cabal of strident racsists who managed to seize power in the Montgomery City Government that was out of proportion to their support in the population.
The bus company at first refused to enforce the law, until the cadre of radicals used force, in the form of armed policemen, to coerce them to discriminate against their Negro riders.
That doesn't mean that the Jim Crow law was acceptible, but it should force a re-thinking of "the South" and its people.