Friday, September 6, 2019
I'm curious
When we talk about slavery in the history of the US, we never seem to be able to extend the responsibility/blame to the UK or to those Africans who captured and sold their own in the first place. Certainly not intending to absolve anyone of an appropriate degree of responsibility, but just wondering why we ignore so much in order to blame America.
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“Islam has had problems throughout history up to today“
When confronted with the fact that the vast majority of current slavery is in Muslim countries, the above is Dans response to that fact.
Slavery is just a “problem”.
Well, because America's "evil". Don't you know that? All that matters is that the white majority be held accountable for every ill that occurs, even that in which race plays no role whatsoever. Here, in the spirit of the white guilt/privilege ideology of the left, we must ignore that non-whites were essential in the proliferation of the practice of slavery. We must ignore those occasions where whites were enslaved, because it's harder to blame whites for all that is wrong in world when whites have suffered, too.
Of course you’re right. It just ignores the fact that slavery in the Western Hemisphere was established by the British, French, and Spanish in their colonies. But in this new view of history they get off scot free and the Muslim and African slave traders get a complete pass.
Not to mention that slavery that was abolished 150 years ago, gets them more worked up than actual present day slavery does. I suspect I know why, but I’m not sure.
So, if slavery is evil, and violence is also evil, how does one morally sort out the Haitian slave war of independence?
Of course the blaming of the US as a whole ignores the fact that 6 of the first 13 states had outlawed or laid the groundwork for outlawing slavery by 1784.
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