• @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Even with the Devil’s Advocate argument, sure they may have learned skills that could have benefit them after they were freed, BUT THEY WERE SLAVES.

      Also, it ignores the fact that society exists in Africa, so its not like they’d all be in loincloths or w/e the racist caricature of Africans they have is.

      • Flying Squid
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        511 months ago

        Also, how about all the slaves that were never freed because they died before emancipation? How did they benefit?

      • @banneryear1868
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        311 months ago

        It’s like suggesting the holocaust benefitted Jews because they got Israel. How do you even apply this logic… that it’s okay to do evil because eventually something good is determined to happen that makes up for it? Do future generations getting a good thing justify the system that perpetrates oppression in the present day? Something good happening isn’t determined, and calling the post-war existence of freed slaves “good” is also a stretch.

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          11 months ago

          They don’t. It’s just bullshit they made up to distract and confuse you. It’s a congress of baboons throwing shit at the wall to see what will stick.