• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    Jfc. If this administration rewrites anymore history the US is going to just up and disappear. First it’s oh slavery wasn’t that bad, then its what slaves? We didn’t have slaves. Then we go full circle and have slaves again

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    I feel like the only way to teach them that slavery is wrong is to enslave them. I will personally volunteer to recreate the whipping scene from Roots for everyone who thinks slavery wasn’t so bad. Starting with the orange.

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    We have to keep drilling in that slavery is bad because there are still so many fucking racists in this country.

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    So, teaching the horrors of slavery is woke now? They are just telling on themselves now.

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        We can but pulling logistics online leaves us open to plan spying by the enemy. Even using Signal is not secure enough if the govt military can be outed on it

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          To be fair to Signal, they kinda outed themselves by including that journalist in the chat. That’s not really a fault of signal. But they also shouldn’t have been using signal in the first place, so there’s that.

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            If they were rising up on our side, we could have the legislature and the whitehouse cleaned out in no time. They would more likely rise up on the govts side

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    People sang more back then. There were hardly any workers comp claims. And it kept kids off their dang iPhones.

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    The logic:

    400 years of slavery but your great great grand grand kids have been taught 1 or 2 farming skills a piece.

    Oh, and we will be generous and only charge half price for those 400 years of your food and lodging.

    You owe us really…

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      No no no. My Good’ole’Boy high school curriculum told me the slaves were forced off the Plantation by the mean Union thugs in their War Of Northern Aggression.

      Clearly, this picture is just out of context or propaganda or idk he was clearly doing drugs and the police were just trying to help him out but he wouldn’t stop resisting.

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        Slavery was such an ingrained institution that there was for sure some disruption brought by ending it - even some disruption for the enslaved.

        People can mine this for evidence that the Union harmed people by ending slavery, but that’s a bad faith outlet for slavery apologists, and nothing more.

        Good change can be disruptive. I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though. It’s kind of right there in their name.

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          I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though.

          Unless the changes are hiking tariffs, gutting regulations, and embarking on a new generation of wars.

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            That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.

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              Republicans have been fascist since McKinley. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.

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      Robert E. Lee, the hero of the south, tortured his slaves so savagely that his own slave overseer was disgusted and refused to participate. Which leads me to believe that the scars seen in this photo should be considered “within reason.”

      See? Bright side to everything if you’re enough of a monster.

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      and that’s not even getting into lynching picnics for the whole family, or community, cannibalism, using hair and other body parts of slaves to make medical devices, furniture, or decoration, and who can forget sexual slavery, raping slaves and selling the resulting children into slavery, many first hand accounts from slaves talk about constant sexual abuse. so it’s not ALL just torture and mutilation of living people, or dehumanizing them in every way imaginable.

      and one of the big fat myths of slavery, the docile happy slave. Never happened, slaves were very frequently rebelling, trying to organize to over throw their masters, and creating a whole systems of escape. There was no happiness in slavery, it a daily power struggle to suppress slave revolts and uprisings, and keep slaves in a constant state of fear and terror.

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    Is it just me or is whitewashing slavery the first step in reinstituting slavery?