• Arotrios@kbin.social
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    Fuck this racist bullshit. This is a facetious justification cribbed from a revolting pro-slavery screed in 1857.

    There is no benefit in slavery for the slave. None. Any skills they learned could have just as easily been learned when free.

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    They weren’t slaves, they were just participating in an exciting involuntary farm internship program. Just think of all the skills they could list on their resumes when they applied to be slaves at other plantations. Whippings are a great opportunity for personal growth after all.

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    This is the most disingenuous nonsense. How in the world could that quote be ok in any context??? There’s a reason black history and women’s studies are courses. Both groups of people are generally left out of history books. Hell, they’re trying to erase the fact that Rosa Park was a POC from the history books.

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    “Slavery was basically a jobs program” is a very normal and cool take, thank you Florida

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      Considering that’s what they mean when they say “make America great again”… they would pay themselves on the back with that take of yours. They’d make such nice slave-owning assholes, see

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    If you knee the guy who wrote the curriculum in the family jewels every time you encounter him, he will develop resilience that could be used for personal benefit.