[elwoodblues]

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"Virginia" didn't play any part in the slave trade. People did. Those people are dead. The people that are living today did not play any part in it. The people who apologized apologized for someone else's actions.

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This is one of the most disingenuous arguments coming from someone who constantly rails against the government. You can't have it both ways...either the government/state is a unique entity that can do both good and bad things or it isn't.

The US isn't taxing you...individual people are. The state US didn't invade Iraq...individual people did. Virginia didn't do anything wrong in the slave trade...individual people did. The Virginia/"the government"/ABC corporation are all (appropriately so) treated as "people" albeit in a slightly different way...they are people whose life can theoretically last in perpetuity.