• Dlg@lemmy.world
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      Way to jump to the extreme. At some point in history every skin color was enslaved. Instead of sitting here fighting with me. There is actually real slavery going on in Africa as we speak. Maybe try to help out on that front.

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        Look where the money goes from these private companies who employ forms of slavery in the global south, and which governments have aided the ability for those entities to operate in those countries. It’s basically US foreign policy the last half century under the guise of fighting communism. The fascist coup’s sponsored under Operation Condor and the like to make sure these countries were accommodating to having their resources extracted for private profits. Pinochet in Chile for instance, his political rival Orlando Letelier was even assassinated by car bomb in Washington DC.

        You’re right about slavery and “indentured servants” too. In the US it was the Dutch trade network that formed the economic basis for using slaves from Africa (“black” didn’t exist as a notion of racial identity initially), in fact white slaves were preferred because they understood the language and culture. It was during this enterprise which notions of white racial superiority really developed, “white” itself originally reserved for a very specific class, and of course an ever-changing definition. It was through this process of racism which our current notion of race developed, with all it’s contradictions and absurdities, to explain and justify the disparities this system inflicted and provide categories of ascriptive difference.

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      Work hard to support your family. The Nuclear family. Modesty. Small government. Resect each other.

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        I don’t respect theocratic fascist fanatics like you who constantly try to push your backwards views on the rest of us normal people just trying to live our lives in peace the way that we choose to.

        It’s called personal freedom, especially from your “religion” and “morals.”

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          Bruh. It’s almost like you are writing a script that someone else gave you. Look I’m not going to change your mind and you aren’t going to change mine. It would.be cool if we could have a chilll conversation. Peace out.

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            Nah bruh. I don’t converse with the enemies of free will, bruh.

            Also bruh, I think if you leave your bubble of christian hate, you will find that the majority of Americans are on my side with this. Stop pushing your antiquated ideals onto people who don’t want them.

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              Aren’t you just a ray of freaking sunshine. You must be fun to hangout with. You probably get pissed off before you go to a comedy show.