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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by TheCoelacanth on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:51PM (#25696612)
Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 is even more damning I think. Basically saying that importation of slaves must be allowed for at least the first 19 years of the country's existence.

> The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by zepto on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:52PM (#25703267)
Ok - but that expired a long time ago, and the Civil Rights act was passed in 1964.

Is the complaint that we haven’t erased the slavery related stuff from the record?

What has this got to do with people being racist now?

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by dragonwriter on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:00PM (#25703362)
> the Civil Rights act was passed in 1964.

A Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.

Civil Rights Acts were also passed in 1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1968, and 1991.

But the passage of a Civil Rights Act is not, in and of itself, an indication of the end of systemic racism.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by zepto on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:24PM (#25703654)
“But the passage of a Civil Rights Act is not, in and of itself, an indication of the end of systemic racism“

Systemic racism is rampant in every country I have lived in, the US included.

But you are changing the subject.

The question is about why it matters that it was once part of the constitution if it is no longer?

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by sanity31415 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:13PM (#25703511)
What evidence would prove that systemic racism doesn't exist?
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by buzzerbetrayed on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:15AM (#25697889)
How is that damning? The alternative was to create the union without the south. Then slavery would have continued much longer in the south. How would it have been better for the north to refuse to compromise? The constitution brought the end of slavery. It didn’t prop it up.
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