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The reason it’s wrong is the post is written as if slavery and all it’s sins fall on America, that America wouldn’t exist today without this ideal and that a gr
by justanorherhack 4y ago
The reason it’s wrong is the post is written as if slavery and all it’s sins fall on America, that America wouldn’t exist today without this ideal and that a great correction is due. All of the ‘developed’ world at the time were slave owners. Also slavery was not new it’s as old as time and every civilization had it’s own version of it. It wasn’t white supremacy as in we are doing this because we are better its class warfare asserting power over one group, the conquerors and the conquered. Was that group dehumanized? Yes but many of the founders wrote and stood against it and didn’t view them as subhuman. Pretty sure one of them freed and married a slave. The 3/5ths compromise at the time was a compromise to have slaves considered as people with rights to vote while other states didn’t like that because it meant they were people. But it was a great compromise just like the civil war, if the idea of slavery and white supremacy ie man is not created equal was so rooted then why was there decades of conflict over it…
- ceejayoz 4y ago> The 3/5ths compromise at the time was a compromise to have slaves considered as people with rights to vote while other states didn’t like that because it meant they were people. If you think slaves in the US had the right to vote, I think you should sit this discussion out.