You're right, but I'm not trying to construct an argument here. There are some red-line issues that I'm not prepared to put up for debate on this blog, and that's one of them. (I'm also not prepared to give blog room to arguments about whether black people should ever have been emancipated, whether gays should be exterminated, sterilized or merely given reparative therapy, and - well, I'm sure you can fill out the list!)

If someone really did have a problem with that proposition I'd be happy to point them to some of the many good books and web sites that discuss the issue more knowledgeably than I could, but more than that I will regard as trolling and deal with accordingly.