idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works to CunkPosting@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoLand of the freesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
arrow-up15arrow-down1imageLand of the freesh.itjust.worksidegenszavak@sh.itjust.works to CunkPosting@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI mean we still buy phones, cars, clothes, chocolate, jewels made by slave labor
minus-squareThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoMy 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
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoChattel Slavery. And no one here is insinuating any slavery is good. But you’re apparently saying the US is above reproach “because others did it”. All slavery, including the ~400 years of chattel slavery, as well as that permitted by the clause in the 13th amendment, is bad.
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
Chattel Slavery. And no one here is insinuating any slavery is good. But you’re apparently saying the US is above reproach “because others did it”.
All slavery, including the ~400 years of chattel slavery, as well as that permitted by the clause in the 13th amendment, is bad.