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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Ah, I think this is where we actually disagree. "Terrorism", to my thinking, is using terror as a means to achieve political goals. Thus, a fascist regime slaughtering people in the streets to achieve acquiescence to the regime is just as much terrorism as a fringe party in a democracy setting off a bomb in the legislature. The fundamental element of both is the achievement of broader political goals by terror.
Thus, slavery, seeking to achieve the acquisition of cheap labor for the elite by the use of a system of brutality and arbitrary hierarchy with the conscious aim of inciting terror in the labor force to maintain their 'cooperation', is certainly predicated on the use of terrorism.
I suppose I can see those definitions.
I would still not call slavery terrorism, if only because terrorism is not slavery. Terrorism is a tool used by people who promote slavery.
I suppose I would say, more clearly than the meme, that American slavery was an enterprise which inherently involved systemic terrorism.
But I didn't make the meme myself, and even I did, I would probably find that too wordy to clarify anyway, and just have said something close to the meme as-is. :p
I'll buy that for a dollar.