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[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Jfc. If this administration rewrites anymore history the US is going to just up and disappear. First it's oh slavery wasn't that bad, then its what slaves? We didn't have slaves. Then we go full circle and have slaves again

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Who wants to buy Trump and put him to work cleaning gutter drains with his teeth?

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Pussycuntisseur@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 days ago

Exposure therapy one crack at a time

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh I think they're familiar with that one, they're just always on the other end

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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s almost as if racism is a core value among American conservatives.

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[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

So, teaching the horrors of slavery is woke now? They are just telling on themselves now.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Whitehouse is not sane and should not be given any credence

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[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 146 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Should not be so negative?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

There we go.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People sang more back then. There were hardly any workers comp claims. And it kept kids off their dang iPhones.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

We have to keep drilling in that slavery is bad because there are still so many fucking racists in this country.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

after 200 years, the house finally lives up to its name.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 39 points 2 days ago

museums should start showcasing trumps epstein and russian collusions in thier exhibits.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Did you even say thank you?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Slavery is negative for a reason.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 27 points 2 days ago

Epstein Files

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How bout we enslave this fucking nazi turd. Drag his fat fucking ass around, go full mussolini.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If anyone deserves to be tortured and dismembered, it’s Trump.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel like there are two ways that list could go.

The first is trying to whitewash slavery. The second is trying to help students understand why horrible things like this happen; why did entire economic systems get built for such a horrific practice.

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[–] jonesey71@lemmus.org 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pros: Removes any ambiguity about who the shitbags are.

Cons: Now good people have to kill the shitbags to free the slaves.

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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pros and cons from who's perspective?

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[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

Yes! Are they fucking retarded?

[–] Una@europe.pub 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Idk if you seen prageru, basically had a cartoon where Christopher Columbus said how "being slave was better than being dead"

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 days ago

(this ignores the thousands of taihno who committed suicide, choosing death over servitude, and how much work Colombus' men put into preventing others from choosing the same path)

[–] Ofiuco@piefed.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Ngl, I've seen the same argument on other social networks whenever the spanish conquest on México comes up and they add how mexican society wouldn't be how it is today without the conquest and... Really? Do they think the state of things is worth of praise?

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago
[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Is it just me or is whitewashing slavery the first step in reinstituting slavery?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Black people loved slavery. There. I cut out all the euphemisms and just got us to the end goal to save us some time.

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump feuding with a history museum. You'd think that would sound the 'fascist' alarm to his supporters, but seems like nothing will.

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

just a reminder that Newsweek is a conspiracy-peddling, right-wing rag that we should not be driving traffic to

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought they were all about facts not caring about their feelings

No, they were about facts not caring about your feelings. Where their feelings are involved, it's the opposite; their feelings don't care about facts.

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