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Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal'
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Disgusting. They won't be happy until slavery is brought back.
And the thing of it is, the white conservative racists want slavery back because they think it'll apply to black people. But little do they realize that big capital wants slavery back, too, and big capital will be all to happy put everyone into slavery, including white conservatives.
They're all too happy to point out that white people were slaves too elsewhere in the world so that makes our slavery somehow not racist... They'll then hold these same beliefs as you state.
Ignorance really is bliss huh...
Also ignoring that the various types of "white slavery" were in fact very different than the chattel slavery employed against African people. The kind of slavery we practiced in America treated (black) people as literal property. Including their own children, who could be born into slavery.
I'm not sure ignorance is the right word. "Willful disingenuity" is what leaps to my mind, but that doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily.
Malicious ignorance.
It is back via convicts and our prison system
That implies it ever left. The 13th amendment "outlawed" except as punishment for crime. Guess how many new laws and crimes were invented after that amendment was created.
Correct: It never really left.
It also really highlights how big selective enforcement is in this country, and puts that higher arrest rate for black suspects into perspective.
It's not racist if they're fine enslaving white people too!
How I imagine the defense of slavery will be proffered.
It's already what they argue. They argue that slavery was world wide and of every race so it's not racist and it's totally ok that we once had it...
That doesn't change the fact that American slavery was one of the worst slavery businesses ever (and the bar is pretty low), hand in hand with the Arab slave trade
They want the working class working for slave wages.
Bold of you to assume they want the working class to have any wages at all. Remember spending scrip at the company store?
You move 16 tons and what do you get...
Slave wages? Wages? Haha good one
This is unhelpful - they do not. What they do want is to minimize it and its impact so that they don't have to feel bad. They're trying to square "I love America" with "America has done awful things." And it leads them to diminishing the latter to preserve the former.