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This painfully reminds me of George Carlin, who referred to the original artisans of his country -- in jest -- as "a bunch of white slaveowners who wanted to be
by weland 13y ago
This painfully reminds me of George Carlin, who referred to the original artisans of his country -- in jest -- as "a bunch of white slaveowners who wanted to be free".
- dmix 13y agoI understand this was in jest, but this comes up on HN often. Slavery was introduced in America ~two centuries before the founding fathers had influence. They were focused on the threat of authoritarianism/british rule, and failed to properly address their own complicit authoritarianism. Very much like many people today who are all of a sudden concerned about the abuses of the "police state" aggressively targeting protesters and activists, when black communities have been harassed and targeted for decades (see the only domestic aerial bombing in US history targeting black activists in the 1980s [1] or recently "stop and frisk") with little public protest from white communities. ...or the difference in legal sentencing for crack cocaine vs powdered cocaine. Racial hypocrisy is hardly a thing of the past in public discourse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE