The Stupidest Argument About Slavery

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  @BrandonF · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @Bobbymaccys · 3 years ago

  I met a confederate reenactor. And asked him what &nbsp;the hardest part of the hobby was. And he replied “meeting neo confederates”.

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  @Camo1177 · 3 years ago

  If you say ‘yes I consent’ but you didn’t have the option to say no, then you really didn’t consent.

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  @ThePoeticPariah · 3 years ago

  &quot;Slavery... is bad&quot;<br><br>Some people: &quot;How fucking dare you&quot;

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  @fried_miso_soup · 1 year ago

  The problem isn&apos;t that they&apos;re treating their tools improperly. It&apos;s the fact that they&apos;re treating human beings like tools

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  @coffeemaiden7915 · 3 years ago

  Its weird to think about people getting mad because someone said that removing people’s freedom is a bad thing.

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  @josephvarno5623 · 3 years ago

  It disturbs me that Brandon is getting push back about slavery being bad.

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  @fastenbauer · 3 years ago (edited)

  The whole &quot;But they were treated like family.&quot; argument really falls apart from the simple fact that they were still slaves. If you&apos;re family member was enslaved and you had the power to set them free you wouldn&apos;t hesitate to do so. Any person that kept an actual family member as a slave, we would consider the worst kind of person.

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  @UltraCenterHQ · 2 years ago (edited)

  The fact that saying slavery is a bad thing even debated is just sad

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  @RenoLark · 3 years ago

  I love how neo confederates think that it’s even possible to “treat a slave well.” If you’re enslaving somebody, that’s inherently abusive. You cannot treat a slave well because keeping a human being as property is already one of the worst things you can do to a person.

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  @SpiderPig34543 · 3 years ago

  In regards to the tool argument and the abuse of tools. I am a machinist by trade and there are many tools that you use that are expected to wear out and break down. All that you do is calculate how much this breakdown costs and bake that into the cost of the good. To apply that same logic to a person would be abhorrent.

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  @door-chan · 3 years ago

  &quot;Unlike us, who are more civilized and intelligent, they are more prone to violence&quot;<br><br>&quot;So that&apos;s why you beat them constantly?&quot;<br><br>&quot;Yes&quot;

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