Should not be so negative?
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.
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.
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.
That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.
Republicans have been fascist since McKinley. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
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.
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.
Slavery is negative for a reason.
Are you forgetting how good it was for all those slave owners though? They liked it a whole lot.
Epstein files
after 200 years, the house finally lives up to its name.
Priceless
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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.
Don’t forget the rape.
Oh I think they’re familiar with that one, they’re just always on the other end
They would just claim your form of slavery is not what slavery was actually like back then. These people don’t want to learn or improve themselves. They want to be able to say “I win” without having to actually do anything.
I still think I would have a good time whipping them to death.
Whitehouse is not sane and should not be given any credence
Can we just start revolting yet?
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
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.
It’s almost as if racism is a core value among American conservatives.
Don’t forget pedophilia.
Conservative idiots like Trump want to white (heh) wash slavery because they want to bring slavery back. Not just for black people, but of course especially for black people first, but also for all the other poors they think they can exploit to make themselves richer. Somehow they think everyone should be on board with this, and alas probably some subset of idiots will be even after they’re already wearing the manacles themselves.
Stupid racist white people would be slaves and be saying, “I may be a slave, but at least I’m not a black slave.”
Trump feuding with a history museum. You’d think that would sound the ‘fascist’ alarm to his supporters, but seems like nothing will.
That’s not an alarm to them, it’s a theme tune.
When I was in middle school, we had to make a list of pros and cons of slavery for classwork. I remember it being homework but I can’t see that bullshit flying if the parents knew.
Pros and cons from who’s perspective?
That, detective, is the right question.
I like it honestly. Remove the idiocratic “Because it’s bad, duh”.
No. Make your research. Understand the problem. Feel the problem. See how far it gone, and why people used that, and what was the price to pay.
Pro: Less work for me
Con: More work for them
Southern state?
So, teaching the horrors of slavery is woke now? They are just telling on themselves now.
People sang more back then. There were hardly any workers comp claims. And it kept kids off their dang iPhones.
And their great great grandchildren will get 40 acres and a mule.
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…
Did you even say thank you?
There we go.
