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Quote by: bishop  well, if you want to just focus on white men, then there's the example of poor and landless whites in early america - who didn't have the right to vote. looking at italians and irish, they were treated as some inferior race.. they were hardly treated remotely similar to they way they are today. |
Hard to compare when there were different standards for "value" in place, then.
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the wars over the past 100 years to this day, and before, have been fought over power/money. bush's escapades are just one small example of our race's history of imperial and exploitative wars.
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Actually, the US entered WW1 because of the Germans attempting an alliance with Mexico against the US should we enter the war, and we entered WW2 because of the attack on pear harbor.
Korea and Vietnam were fought because of conflicting government types, and Iraq is being fought over, literally, nothing.