molt1228 said:
Different time period for mucks sake. If you were in a sea of people w the same values (including your parents) you'd believe that segregation was right. Let's look at slavery during colonial times and the founding fathers. Please don't be ignorant. How about Germans and the holocaust?
Not in any way relating either slavery or the Holocaust to this issue as they're drastically different, but asserting that people 80 years ago (Holocaust) were simply too ignorant to know that mass murder of an entire ethnicity was wrong is a comically bad take.
As it pertains to the founding fathers, some of them specifically wrote at the time that they believed it was morally wrong but that the political, agricultural, and social repercussions of not institutionalizing slavery would be too damaging to the growth of the new nation. Additionally, abolitionists and the abolitionist line of thought were not uncommon at the time.
All that said, as is frequently the case, neither was a matter of ignorance but was instead a matter of ignoring what was moral, ethical, and "right" in favor of what was personally beneficial, convenient, etc. It's not a coincidence that in both instances people worked to document and legally establish that both Jews and black were subhuman/drastically inferior/dangerous in order to justify the acceptability of continued abuse and exploitation.
Is what it is.