The focus of MSM attention these past few days is the possibility that Virginia Governor Northam posed long ago in a yearbook photo in garb that is regarded as screaming, yelling, ultra racist by today's standards.
As satisfying as it is to see Democrats held up to the standards they use for Republicans, it's still unfair. What was halfway acceptable 30 or 40 years ago might be considered totally out of bounds today. But the problem is with the time travel aspect. A lawful society doesn't make rules, then turn back the clock and convict people of violations for acts that were OK at the time.
Most crimes have a statute of limitations attached to them. Once that time has passed, the law doesn't exactly excuse them, but it ignores them. The same thing should occur in civil society. But as it works now, the rules get changed, and past events fall into that new category: OK at the time, but wrong now. We really shouldn't hold people responsible for things they did in the past just because the mob wants to apply new rules to past acts.
Ethnocentrism is judging another culture by the values and standards of one's own culture.
What we have now is Era-centrism: Imputing a sin or crime to long ago acts that, due to social evolution, are now unacceptable.
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2:21 PM 2/3/2019
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