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If you find yourself minimizing the atrocities of slavery is it time that you reexamine your life and your ideologies?

Flenflyys · 31-35, F
Those kinds of people aren't capable of reflection tho
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@Flenflyys: Oprah would agree
tindrummer · M
Absolutely, but people who feel this way don't want to change and are usually hopeless cases.
I think slavery gets more than its due. The genocide of the Native Americans and the ugliness of the reservation system, on the other hand, not so much.
@IvanKaramazov: What happened to the Native Americans is a tragedy, no doubt. But genocide implies that it was intentional.

90-95% of Natives died without ever seeing a European and prior to the 20th century, Natives fought and killed other tribes in larger numbers and more frequently than Europeans.

I'm not saying that European Americans are innocent of atrocities done to the natives, but calling it a genocide is exaggerated.
Flenflyys · 31-35, F
90% of native deaths were a result of diseases like smallpox. Horrible, but unintended and not intentionally oppressive, @IvanKaramazov:
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
Are you referring to the almost ten trillion dollars in debt the last president added onto the middle class and its children, grandchildren and future generations?

Debt is the greatest form of enslavement, it can make you beholden to another person for life. What happens when this ponzi scheme created by the tax and spend treasonous government pieces of crap finally goes bust and the people who have been saving and were responsible their whole lives have nothing. Then you will see the real riots. That is one thing that eventually catches up to everybody, reality. Selective outrage gets old....
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@therighttothink50:
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
Do you actually come across people doing this?
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@KaliKali: I party I support has nothing to do with the KKK or those sympathetic to slavery.

I have no contact with these people nor do I care how they vote. I am not responsible for them is neither is Trump.

they can do what they want...as long as its legal.
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@HoraceGreenley: [quote]I have no idea what you are.

I am only telling you what I believe and have done.

I don't give two shits about the KKK.[/quote]

I was obviously talking to the person who brought up Democrats, not you.

[quote]I party I support has nothing to do with the KKK or those sympathetic to slavery.[/quote]

Why do you think members of the KKK also support the GOP?

[quote]they can do what they want...as long as its legal.[/quote]

You probably should.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@KaliKali:
I say you get over the past and stop blaming others for your problems.
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Did you respond to the wrong question or something?
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Neiromatheous · 31-35, M
Which example of slavery are you referring to? Slavery has been practiced nearly as long as recorded human history, and it is actually rampant throughout our civilization today.
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Some people torture people before they rape and murder them, so people who rape and murder people without torturing them first aren't as bad.


Do you see how disgusting and stupid that sounds?
Neiromatheous · 31-35, M
@KaliKali: I can see what I said completely went over your head. Also murder, rape and torture is a completely different subject. To use one subject as an example of another subject that is completely different is just wrong and shows an incredible amount of ignorance on your part. I think I understand what you were trying to portray, that a crime is a crime and to judge someone less because they committed a similar crime in a different way is wrong. But that too is a very limited view on the matter of all crimes, like would you give the death sentence to someone who is proven mentally ill and ended up murdering someone? Why not, he murdered someone and murder is murder despite the fact that he probably needs help instead of being treated like a criminal. Now going back to slavery, there are examples of people and societies in the 1800s that would use many different methods in order to free slaves in North America, one method use by die hard anti slavers within the ACS was to buy slaves, set them free and help them get to a freedman colony in Africa. Those men bought people making them slavers themselves, despite the fact that they set them free and helped them get to a place they believed they could live free. Does that make those men criminals? Should they be tried the same way as someone as someone who bought slaves, beat them everyday and forced them to work to near death, while they starved them and sold them off to mines for cheap when they were near dead? Events are much more complicated than he did this so he should be punished for it, we are so focused on the effect that we do not even bother to consider the cause. Like I said, over exaggerating something is just as dangerous as under exaggerating something. Just as having a limited vision on something is a dangerous thing as well. That is all I have to say about that.
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Slavery is disgusting because it is slavery. Everything else is just added horrors.
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
Can I just buy an ice cream cone in peace? 🍦
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Firespirit · 22-25, M
Well not all slavery is equal some was worse than others so to examine it is not bad but if one was supporting slavery then one should question his/her life and ideologies
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