Alyakia wrote:reform is a good thing but there's a window where you can reasonably count it among the good things your country has done and for racial segregation the united states was way past that point. it'd be like if saudi arabia finally made women equal then people starting talking about all the good things saudi arabia has done and listed all the great strides they made in womens rights as examples of how good it is. i'd probably just laugh at them and tell them that there's no way they will ever be able to list "women's rights" as a good thing their country has done.
Dunno, I'd probably list it. Just because at different points a country can be "Was a shitbird on this issue" and "Was not a shitbird on this issue" doesn't mean that the latter can't be held up as non-shitbirdery.