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Vin LoPresti's avatar

True enough. No one's saying it wasn't an imperfect document or that 20 million Native people didn't die in a settler colonial genocide.. I'm just commenting on the "choice" by current pols to abide by the key document of my concern and should've specified "Bill of Rights -- being the pages they choose or not -- to wipe their arses with.

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CK's avatar

No disagreement, here.

The pols are like the “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which doctrines and edicts to follow vs. which ones to ignore.

I didn’t coin the term of “cafeteria Catholics”. That “cafeteria” concept exists within many organized religions and within the policies and procedures of many secular organizations.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Yes, I've heard it before. It's an apt descriptor, and it just evoked a memory in my old mind that I hadn't imaged in maybe decades. A particular chain of cafeterias in 1950's NYC. That's the human brain for you. Hopelessly unpredictable.

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