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[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 148 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Should not be so negative?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 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.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slavery is negative for a reason.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you forgetting how good it was for all those slave owners though? They liked it a whole lot.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago

Epstein Files

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Una@europe.pub 53 points 1 week 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 36 points 1 week 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)

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[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

While I'm not at all disagreeing, it's pretty wild this comment is still up 😅

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

After he loses all limbs, then lather him up with gasoline and turn his Jabba the Hutt ass into ash.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 40 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Whitehouse is not sane and should not be given any credence

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Stupid racist white people would be slaves and be saying, "I may be a slave, but at least I'm not a black slave."

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slavery still exists in the US, it just now only mostly focused on African Americans. The Prison Industrial Complex is an abomination.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Yes, it still exists as the "except as punishment for a crime" loophole in the 13th amendment. And when fascists are in power, they love to make any arbitrary thing a crime so they have a justification to imprison anybody.

Once they run out of farm workers due to having deported them all, expect Trump and his cronies to be super keen to staff those same farms using slave labor -- for profit, of course -- via just rounding up whoever else they don't like on phony charges.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week 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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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week 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.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pros and cons from who's perspective?

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 week ago (3 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 15 points 1 week 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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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh no!! Maybe he should go back in time and prevent the developement of chatel slavery, if he's so worked up about the historical representation of slavery in-general.

That said, chatel slavery seems alive and well in the US Prison system. Maybe some of us really are too distracted by the history to bother fixing things in the present. Mr. Mangione allegedly might have something to say about it. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention at that cookout, back on December 4th.

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[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

It's amazing how all these dumbasses look exactly the same. I knew exactly what she'd look like even before watching the video.

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Fun fact I overheard! This is a thing in cults. It's something about a uniform appearance plus appearance policing (either overt or to fit in).

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Y’all know he’s demented as fuck, right?

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