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That goes a bit too far in the other direction. Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage. That includes slaves brought to the US and the Caribbean;
by scarmig 4y ago
That goes a bit too far in the other direction. Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage. That includes slaves brought to the US and the Caribbean; slavery was rampant in Africa as well.
- zozbot234 4y ago> Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage. True, but serfdom persisted in some Eurasian countries well into the 1860s. This makes it plausibly quite relevant to present times, in a way that other forms of bondage might not be.
- scarmig 4y agoMy point is not that white people don't have oppression in recent memory, but more that everyone has oppression in recent memory. And if you dig back further and further, you just find heaps and heaps of more oppression, and it ends up impossibly messy to do an accounting of historic wrongs and try to right them in the present day (which doesn't even touch on the question of how giving privileges to people now somehow rights the wrongs done to their ancestors).
- nathanaldensr 4y agoWhy?