The Clearances

[Bruno]

One thing I do know for certain is that no one living now has any right to judge historical people and their actions. The fact is the world is a very different place every 50 years changes thing immensely.

What our grand parents held as the norm (racism was institutionalised as was sexism, homosexuals were locked up and or chemically castrated etc) we would find terrible. What we hold as the norm now, one day will be judged by others.

Its easy to sit here in our ivory towers and judge the clearances, but they were different times with different values and different people.

[macwilkin]

One thing I do know for certain is that no one living now has any right to judge historical people and their actions. The fact is the world is a very different place every 50 years changes thing immensely.

What our grand parents held as the norm (racism was institutionalised as was sexism, homosexuals were locked up and or chemically castrated etc) we would find terrible. What we hold as the norm now, one day will be judged by others.

Its easy to sit here in our ivory towers and judge the clearances, but they were different times with different values and different people.

History instructor bonnet on: I thank you, sir!

Todd

[BoldHighlander]

History instructor bonnet on: I thank you, sir!

Todd

As do I!!

[Ozark Ridge Rider]

One thing I do know for certain is that no one living now has any right to judge historical people and their actions. The fact is the world is a very different place every 50 years changes thing immensely.

What our grand parents held as the norm (racism was institutionalised as was sexism, homosexuals were locked up and or chemically castrated etc) we would find terrible. What we hold as the norm now, one day will be judged by others.

Its easy to sit here in our ivory towers and judge the clearances, but they were different times with different values and different people.

Right. As one who had ancestors on both sides in America's civil war, and who likely had ancestors on both sides at Culloden, and all of whom suffered for what they believed in, I am just profoundly grateful for the heritage they left to me.

I owe them much respect. As much as anything for the fact that, whether they were on the "right" side, or the "wrong" side, they were survivors. They did what they had to for what they believed in and just to get by.