• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      And the thing of it is, the white conservative racists want slavery back because they think it’ll apply to black people. But little to they realize that big capital wants slavery back, too, and big capital will be all to happy put everyone into slavery, including white conservatives.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        They’re all too happy to point out that white people were slaves too elsewhere in the world so that makes our slavery somehow not racist… They’ll then hold these same beliefs as you state.

        Ignorance really is bliss huh…

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      This is unhelpful - they do not. What they do want is to minimize it and its impact so that they don’t have to feel bad. They’re trying to square “I love America” with “America has done awful things.” And it leads them to diminishing the latter to preserve the former.