We have to keep drilling in that slavery is bad because there are still so many fucking racists in this country.
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.
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.
Don’t forget the rape.
Pass
Is it just me or is whitewashing slavery the first step in reinstituting slavery?
There we go.
It’s almost as if racism is a core value among American conservatives.
just a reminder that Newsweek is a conspiracy-peddling, right-wing rag that we should not be driving traffic to
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?
You can't understand progress without an understanding of historical reality.
Black people loved slavery. There. I cut out all the euphemisms and just got us to the end goal to save us some time.
Controversial, but efficient. I appreciate your work.
museums should start showcasing trumps epstein and russian collusions in thier exhibits.
Bruh
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.
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.
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.
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.
why did entire economic systems get built for such a horrific practice.
Lol we are still under oppressive economic systems meant to strip us of our identities and leave us as worker slaves barely making ends meet but still deciding between medication or food. We live in the greatest country in the world /s
So don't teach about slavery?
Pros: Removes any ambiguity about who the shitbags are.
Cons: Now good people have to kill the shitbags to free the slaves.
Pros and cons from who's perspective?
That, detective, is the right question.
How bout we enslave this fucking nazi turd. Drag his fat fucking ass around, go full mussolini.
Epstein files
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