• ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I say this as an American. Half the “Founding Fathers” were slave owners and did not see a problem with subgrating other humans into forced labor. The American enterprise has been a business all the way back to the first white man setting foot on this continent. I guess I just proved you talking point.

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      1 hour ago

      “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

      as Samuel Johnson argued during the American revolution. Apologies for unenlightened 18th-century language.

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        55 minutes ago

        It is OK. I got my Masters in 18th and 19th century lit. Johnson was right on the money with that quote and I say that as an American.