[Lorianne]

Ah yes, the rosy wonderful pre-1960's (with certain aspects surgically removed from the rosy picture). Unilateral sanctioning, unjust/inequitable policies is is WHY you have to use the disclaimers you did about the pre-1960's.

Of course people who were never unequally treated by race or sex pre-1960's would love to return to those good old days where their group was NEVER shamed and sanctioned for the same act the "other" did with them. How genteel.

It is that exact attitude that brought the world tens of thousands of abandoned and left behind "Amerasian" children. Of course, neither having to watch the half-white kids suffer nor pay for the social havoc caused was the ideal situation wasn't it? Out of sight out of mind.

[SauronOfMordor]

I believe a lot of the Amerasian kids were brought over to the US and adopted -- which was a better fate than awaited their all-asian neighbors when the forces of fairness, equality, and social justice finally took over in 'Nam

However much the "forces of fairness" may try to avoid it, whenever "fairness" and "equality" takes precedence over workability, the result is usually oppression, poverty, and bloodshed. "Fairness" and "Justice" got us the fire-fire combat zones that our inner cities have become, where young people have a higher chance of being murdered than in making it out to the middle-class