This thread is a great microcosm of the problem of debate on this site.
One person makes a dumbass assertion that isn't grounded in any form of tangible reality.
People who don't agree with him take the exact opposite opinion, as though there are only two polar extremes to choose from.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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