1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
3/ So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing:
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
5/ (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. In short, my challenge is to show where they have at risk to themselves and their futures stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
OneGuy
About half of those whites who were living in America lived lives little better than slaves. Many of them came to this country as indentured servants or their parents did. Many of them worked 6 1/2 days a week 12-16 hours a day to scrape a living out of the soil. These facts are often forgotten when life of Americans in the 17th century is discussed.
Fusil Darne
Hmm. Unless I am mistaken, you get serious street cred with the prof for taking a pro life position at some point in time.
Yea, I’m seriously mistaken, no doubt.
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