- The !asklemmy@lemmy.ml thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130
- The !worldnews@lemmy.ml thread https://lemmy.ml/post/45067752
- The most wretched one, the lemmy.world thread https://lemmy.world/post/44762557
Fill in your lib bingo cards (they are all free spaces) its all on display (slightly) paraphrasing:
- slavery wasnt that bad, ever heard of the HOLOCAUST? The genocide created solely to eradicate jews and did not target anyone else that mattered^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24779361]
- "Pointless" semantic squabbling (the point is ofcourse to draw attention away from the topic at hand)^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45067752/24791184]
- but china^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24787830]
- the west is actually taking a stand against oppression olympics^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24776209]
- the west are actually the ones who care about international law^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45067752/24792260] (said by a german
) - german claims to be part of a non-slaver country^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22884230]
- Holodomor^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24776247] china famine^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24787772] were as bad as the holocaust and the trans-atlantic slave trade
- black people arent that innocent either sweetey^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22877835] ^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24787388] ^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22889476]
- This is only about money^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24783498]
- I didn't do it, so I shouldn't pay reparations^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22876585]
- slavery is just human nature^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45035509/24779781] ^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22882458] and we have more important things rn^[https://lemmy.ml/post/45040130/24790003]
- this is ancient history and not really all that relevant now^[https://lemmy.world/post/44762557/22888155]
out in full force
They have to defend it because the trans atlantic slave trade was one of the very first things capitalism invented
They're all rushing to "BuT oThEr CuLtUrEs HaD sLaVeS tOo" as though Roman slavery was the same thing as chattel slavery