>Or go back a few more generations, even here in the USA you might legally have been declared to be 3/5 of a person. Oh my god can we stop this absurd meme. N

>Or go back a few more generations, even here in the USA you might legally have been declared to be 3/5 of a person. Oh my god can we stop this absurd meme. Nobody was ever 'declared to be 3/5 of a person'. The point of the 3/5 compromise was to reduce the power of states with slaves. It was purely about counting the population of the state for the purpose of assigning seats in Congress. To suggest that it was racist to multiply the number of slaves by 0.6 before adding them to the non-slave population is truly insane. If it had been 1.0 then it would have given slave-owners more political power.