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Daily reminder slavery is still legal in the U.S.
Daily reminder Europe funded the Confederacy bybuying slave cotton
Edit down voting doesn’t erase your crimes
I mean we still buy phones, cars, clothes, chocolate, jewels made by slave labor
My point is the hypocrisy of ragging on the US slave trade while they were the ones that set it up and bought products made by it. I’m not washing the USA’s sin here but it’s only fair to remember Europe’s place in it
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted. Europe has definitely done a lot of horrible things around the world. Britain for example banned/killed of the textile industry in India (which at one time was 25% of the worlds production) to monopolize that industry at home (which is also why they imported cotton from the America’s). Let’s also not forget that the Confederates were white, European, colonial Settlers. It’s not just cotton buying, but the whole system / Trade Triangle around Slavery that was created by Europeans and that lead to those crimes
land of the double speak
this is a reminder that slavery is literally legal as punishment for crimes and thus they have not abolished slavery
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
Ahum. Without historical context of the quote, that statement sounds quite wrong. /ze Germans
Who do you think Hitler took inspiration from?
It’s not only well documented that the American treatment of Black and Indigenous people directly inspired Hitler, but also, segregation and Jim Crow (both direct inspiration) in the US ended over 20 years after the holocaust, and slavery is still legal in the form of the prison industrial complex, which is a white supremacist institution that disproportionately harms already marginalised populations.
I am a decedent of holocaust survivors, this isn’t to make light of it, it’s a statement on just how bad the US is.
E: it’s late and I didn’t notice that queermunist had basically said the same until after I replied, but I’m leaving it, because the point is worth making again.
Imagine how the indigenous people felt and still do
“all other persons” are counted as “three-fifths” of a person
Also “all other persons” could not vote. Wonder what “all other persons” could possibly mean. A Dwarf?
oh, wait doesn’t that mean… oh…
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(it means enslaved people btw)
