Every generation or so an evil arises which is so monstrous, so degrading to the human spirit, so morally bankrupt that even to debate it is a sign of moral corruption. Native American genocide, slavery, totalitarianism, and Jim Crow laws are evils so unspeakable that we cannot understand today how anyone with a shred of decency could have once supported them. Today, torture, a practice far more degrading to us than to our victims, represents such an evil.
It certainly got my attention in a hurry.
Every generation, the citizenry has stood by and allowed these evils to take place. Every generation, the rationalization was the same - "we didn't know".
In this age of instant communication that excuse is no longer valid, if indeed it ever was. Of course we know.
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