I’m feeling particularly negative tonight, so I thought we might play a game.
Every one gets one nomination of a place name they consider to be synonymous with mans inhumanity to man. Please provide a cite and/or description and the reason/s for your choice.
I’ll start.
Wounded Knee:
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_043700_woundedkneem.htm
There were worse Indian massacres in the west but this was the last and IMO therefor most poignant.
Because of their predominance in history I’d just as soon exclude cites related to the Holocaust (just seems to easy) but I’ll leave that up to y’all.
Mods please delete this one
WTF?! Are you debating, or polling?
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As opposed to:
In My Humble Opinion
“What’s your favorite …?” For frank exchanges of views on *less-than-cosmic topics. * This is also the place for polling
You tell me were it goes
That didn’t work right.
But I think you get my point.
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The problem is that you’re not actually debating anything. You just want people to provide a place name and a reason. If you’d like to, you know, debate an issue, feel free to give it another try. But I’m closing this one. (And I closed the other one, which was a duplicate.)
David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator
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