Thank you. All our ancestors ate grubs and all types of crap. It was the way to live thousands of years ago. Just like that it was an accepted in society to have slaves in our not too distant past. Slaves were all creeds and colours. Slave owners as well. So why make it out to be an American issue, which is what you did:
I could be facetious and argue that it was not America who enslaved them, but the slaves countrymen after raiding their villages and taking the best women, selling the rest. The Americans just bought them. I could point out how Europeans were enslaved. I could point out how American slaves had it good compared to slaves in the Middle East where they were disposable. I could point out it was "evil colonialists" that ended slavery if you really want to get into all these types of arguments SJW arguments. But you get (or should) get my drift. That is also why I called you out on it.
Jesus.
Jack brought up the founding fathers topic.
So I also pointed out the obvious fact that they were also slave owners. The point of that, was at that point in history they had the power to free the slaves and could have, but did not.
Jefferson who wrote the damned constitution was against slavery (although he owned them anyway). He called it a hideous blot on America. Washington called it repugnant. And so on. These guys had just freed themselves from England and were self aware enough of the evils of slavery, but chose not to end it, despite the beautiful expression about the ideas of equality and liberty in the Decleration of Independance.
Can you imagine, the guy who said this -
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And who thought slaves were a blot on America, did not stop it?
So to reiterate my point, those founding fathers had slaves, were explicitly aware of the evils of slavery, had all the power to end slavery, but ultimately did not, which then precipitated the American Civil War less than a 100 years later.
That is why I brought it up. Jack made an inference that the founding fathers virtues in 1776 would be viewed as terrorism in 2020, I just added a counterweight to his ahistorical point by engaging him to consider an act (or is it an ommission?) that would actually be viewed in 2020 with far more disdain and criticism, than his false comparison.
So as you have missed this critical historical nuance and gone off on a tangent building up a strawman which had been built up out of ignorance, assuming that I was on some random SJW mumbo jumbo, can you elucidate for me, what you are calling me out on?
Or is the new standard of the forum that when you mention one dimension of a matter, you are to append a doctoral thesis examining the entire, depth and breadth of the subject simultaneously?
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