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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 45 points 6 days ago (3 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 6 days ago

Exposure therapy one crack at a time

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's why Trump likes it so much. Well, that and the fact that he's the racist son of a Klansman slumlord.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

I still think I would have a good time whipping them to death.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Don't forget pedophilia.

[–] BilliamBoberts@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (2 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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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 20 points 6 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 6 days ago

Did you even say thank you?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

There we go.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

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

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 6 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.

[–] Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Controversial, but efficient. I appreciate your work.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

Yes! Are they fucking retarded?

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 8 points 6 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.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

You can't understand progress without an understanding of historical reality.

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