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| | Matthew Yglesias: No, No, No! |
 | | If you choose to travel to Cuba under the present conditions, and you are able to live with yourself for being a part of system of apartheid, then more power to you. |
 | | For instance, in South Africa, about 12% of the population were of the voting class (I don't recall, exactly, how many whites there were, nor exactly how colored, Indians, etc, were represented), and among them, there was a fairly genuine democracy (albeit with restrictions of freedom of speech for dissident whites, etc). |
 | | Since they were (and are) a pretty large fraction of the population, they couldn't simply increase their share of the economy so as to pad themselves from a sanctions-induced shrinking pie. |
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