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If you're going to heap moral outrage on events 220 years ago, apply it to the whole situation, not just the part that makes you uncomfortable. Chattel slavery
by vkou 3y ago
If you're going to heap moral outrage on events 220 years ago, apply it to the whole situation, not just the part that makes you uncomfortable. Chattel slavery is utterly unconscionable and irredeemable, as is every society that participates in it.
(It's also weird how you're excluding the part where the Polish and the Germans were enfranchised by the Haitian government.)
- xp84 3y agoSome people might say that "exterminated on the basis of race" isn't inaccurate if French is the race, not "everyone without lots of melanin." If someone killed all African blacks but spared some dark-skinned Indians, that would also still be a genocide. While we're being complete, let's remember the part that the genocide extended to poor whites (not slaveholders) as well as women and children. The fact that they gave a pass to those who allied with them shows that the perpetrators were strategic, but does not detract from their bloodthirstiness. As someone who believes in Karma, I am not surprised that a country founded on revenge at the race level has never managed to become a good place in any sense of the word.