Thoughts for the Day 20230108

•  For Conservatives, the question, What is a woman? is a "gotcha" question.
• To conservatives, the correct answer is, "A woman is a person born without a penis.
• I'm seeing strange arguments about slavery being practiced by non-whites, so this (somehow) hand-waves whites off the hook for importing (and then later smuggling) boatload after boatload of slaves to the Americas for the benefit of white slave-owners: "Oh, everyone was practicing slavery."
• Rule #1: Slavery is evil.
• Rule #2: When in doubt, refer to Rule #1.
• The fact slavery is near-universal is one of the major failings of our civilization.
• The prevalence of slavery does not excuse the practice of slavery.
• How bizarre that conservatives emphasize individual responsibility; 
• unless it comes to issues of race, 
• whereupon it's all collective responsibility.