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Privileges restricted by age should have either a philosophical or practical basis. By linking the drinking age to the issue of drunk driving, MADD and its allies argued their case on practical grounds. Certainly, a drinking age of 21 has no intrinsic philosophical justification. The age of majority is 18...
Thus, Elijah Muhammad, the late messiah and absolute ruler of the Nation, preached a message of Black supremacy and racial isolation as intrinsic to Islam. Malcolm X, the foremost among Elijah's ministers, was also a disciple of bigotry until he reached his crucial epiphany when, brought into close contact...
A: There are intrinsic mysteries to ethnicities, but there's no particular reason we have to be bound to the particular faces or ethnicities that we happen to be born into. It's important to know what you grew up with but you don't necessarily have to accept it...
Well, love either is or is not intrinsic to our species; having it both ways leads nowhere. And the contention that romance is an entirely acquired trait -- overly imaginative troubadours' revenge on muddled literalists -- has always rested on some teetery premises.
Even Holocaust revisionists at least claim to respect history. "The Liberators" can't even claim that. Instead, the film appropriates history for its own political purposes. It values political expedience over truth, feel-good messages over historical accuracy. In this case, the message is a good one. But it's...