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>> in particular for natives (you know, the ones who built the countries everybody else seems so hell-bent immigrating to) It was difficult to read this and no
by enraged_camel 5y ago
>> in particular for natives (you know, the ones who built the countries everybody else seems so hell-bent immigrating to)
It was difficult to read this and not laugh because it conveniently leaves out First Nations, as well as the fact that the USA in particular used immense amounts of slave labor while the "natives" you refer to (the whites) reaped the rewards in relative comfort.
- rainworld 5y agoI’m not american.
- enraged_camel 5y agoI didn't say only America used slave labor.
- rainworld 5y agoWhat you are implying is that the wealth of western nations in the present is in a significant way the product of slavery (by whites, of blacks; ignoring the universality in time and space of slavery) which is not the case. In the counterfactual, western nations without slavery, colonialism today would look roughly the same—except, of course, whiter.