after 200 years, the house finally lives up to its name.
Priceless
It should be renamed the Shite House to be more reflective of its current occupant.
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.
Conservatives were never a “no change” party, anywhere. The thing they were conserving was the unearned privilige and prerogatives of the elite. Conservatism was started as a reaction against Englightment ideas of rule of law, meritocracy and accountability.
Conservativism has always represented the interests of the elite, whether those interests were precedented (like neoptism) or not (like, say, the enclosure of the commons in the UK).
That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.
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.
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.
it a daily power struggle to suppress slave revolts and uprisings, and keep slaves in a constant state of fear and terror
That’s what the “well-regulated militias” were for in the Second Amendment.
How bout we enslave this fucking nazi turd. Drag his fat fucking ass around, go full mussolini.
I can only get so erect.
If anyone deserves to be tortured and dismembered, it’s Trump.
Slavery is negative for a reason.
Are you forgetting how good it was for all those slave owners though? They liked it a whole lot.
Most slave owners in the US South weren’t doing all that well. They typically had large debts and widely variable cashflow (not that they deserved sympathy for that). The ones who really made big money on slavery were the slave traders (and their investors) and the banks.
Idk if you seen prageru, basically had a cartoon where Christopher Columbus said how “being slave was better than being dead”
(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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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.
Pros and cons from who’s perspective?
That, detective, is the right question.
Skip, tldr; the god perspective, it wasn’t the right question and wasted time. Obviously the perspective of the reader which if mentally stable understand the god perspective and thereby learn from it.
Pros: Removes any ambiguity about who the shitbags are.
Cons: Now good people have to kill the shitbags to free the slaves.
The JohnBrowncoats vs the Brownshirts
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
Lol we are still under oppressive economic systems
And you know something? Chattel slavery was far, far worse.
Trump feuding with a history museum. You’d think that would sound the ‘fascist’ alarm to his supporters, but seems like nothing will.
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.
chatel slavery seems alive and well in the US Prison system.
Considering the thirteenth amendment literally enshrined slavery into our Constitution… Yeah, it’s alive and well.
museums should start showcasing trumps epstein and russian collusions in thier exhibits.
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.
Slavery still exists in the US, it just now only mostly focused on African Americans. The Prison Industrial Complex is an abomination.
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.
Stupid racist white people would be slaves and be saying, “I may be a slave, but at least I’m not a black slave.”
I am so ready to go home and throw it in much trash Mormon mother’s face. I hate that she buys into this shit.
It’s amazing how all these dumbasses look exactly the same. I knew exactly what she’d look like even before watching the video.
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).
You need to take the bad with the good, otherwise you’ll never understand how far we’ve come. We hold on to slavery to remind us what it took, how efforts were not in vain, and to continue work on pushing for the things we believe in. We are here today because of the hardships we have endured yesterday. It’s not “white guilt”, it’s to remind the world that slavery is bad no matter who does it, to teach us what it looks like, and that we all benefit from eliminating slavery, no matter the form it takes.
When we forget those things, we have things like the anti-vacc movement. People who have their own beliefs that fly in the face of reality, who’ve never had the experiences first hand, and to bend the notion of what is good. It rewrites the legacy of people’s efforts, obscures the lessons used to fight, and trivializes the problems of the time. It manipulates both people and purpose and turns it against each.
My own opinion: Nobody feels guilty about slavery. There are only those that feel regret it’s not still around.
