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BigGuy2 1. “Democrats invented racial slavery.”
That’s historically false. Racialized slavery long predates the modern Democratic Party (founded in the 1820s).
The racial element of slavery developed in the 15th–17th centuries when European empires justified the enslavement of Africans using race as a marker of inferiority. That ideology laid the foundation for modern racism, not U.S. party politics centuries later.
2. “Every group suffered slavery, so stop focusing on Black slavery.”
While true that slavery existed in many cultures, the transatlantic slave trade was uniquely racialized and intergenerational, targeting Africans explicitly because of skin color and creating systems that persisted for centuries. Recognizing that isn’t “hijacking” it’s being accurate about which form of slavery shaped the modern world.
3. “Blacks and Arabs created slavery.”
No group “created” slavery. The oldest recorded examples come from ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, China, and elsewhere, long before any African or Arab empires existed
4. “Quinine let us take slaves ourselves.”
Quinine helped Europeans survive tropical disease during colonial conquest centuries later, but the slave trade thrived long before quinine was isolated (it was first extracted in 1820 — the British abolished their slave trade in 1807).
The timeline alone disproves that claim.
5. “No modern slavery in the West.”
False. Modern slavery includes human trafficking, forced labor, and sexual exploitation, which exist in every region, including Western nations. The U.S., U.K., and EU have all prosecuted cases in recent years.
