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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

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Re: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

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> In the 1920s, I don’t think any person could have imagined the progress in Civil Rights that would occur in America. No one imagined it in the 1920s because they had already imagined it in the 1860s but got Jim Crow instead. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

And yet, those who didn't imagine it in the 1920's still got civil rights in the 1960s. So in your view, what were we supposed to learn from history?

> So in your view, what were we supposed to learn from history?

The south will burn again

Re: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law

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> In the past few decades, the global wealth inequality has decreased significantly I'm guessing that you are thinking about the number of people that have risen from poverty (lead by China, not US) because I could not find one source that is talking about decreased global wealth inequality. In fact, every single source that I could find on a short notice is talking about the rise of global wealth inequality in the l…

https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality#global... > Global income inequality increased for 2 centuries and is now falling

That is about global income, not wealth.
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