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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 39 points 11 months ago

Even with a lobotomy i wouldnt come up with such braindead takes as "black people benefited from slavery". As sane as saying homeless people benefit from fentanyl addiction or that african people benefit from hunger.

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's white man's burden BS slipping back in, where people (like Robert E. Lee) would say "We don't want to enslave these people, it's just our duty to civilize them."

I assume it's some kind of mechanism for maintaining their cognitive dissonance.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Homeless people should clearly all be given cocaine so that they are less hungry. I mean c'mon!

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

And more productive!

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's a clip where white supremacist Richard B. Spencer (who has family ties to plantation history) argues the point against UK Guardian writer Gary Younge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJ-arJgkZU

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

They benefited from being in a nation different from their own

...said the guy who wants to form an ethnostate

I swear man people just don't have functioning brains

[-] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

A 'pure' ethnostate wouldn't have people to do the actual work. A lot of the right wing wants a caste-style system in reality, and for women and 'those people' to stay in 'their place' within it.

[-] freeindv@monyet.cc 0 points 11 months ago

The actual curriculum was good. Ignorant people easily manipulated by lies about made up bigotry were just tricked to sic their bigotry on Florida

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