• doctortofu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What slaves? You mean the unpaid African interns on their “work and study” programs organized by American plantation owners?

    I kid, but I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if that was the next step in this insane narrative…

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Someone needs to make a documentary called “Useful Skills” going into extreme detail on every known instance of a slave murdering his or her slaver.

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    1 year ago

    This whole fiasco was just ridiculous. Even if the victims of slavery had a minor handful of positive effects on their lives from what happened, it in no way makes up for the huge quantity of monstrously horrendous things that happened to them and their descendents.

    It was the same feel as forgiving the Nazis for the Holocaust because Hitler remembered to brush his teeth each night, and Goebbels always remembered to look both ways when crossing the street. In the end, does that even make up for even one quintillionth of all the harm and murder? Not really.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I can’t believe this reality.

    Professor Farnsworth: “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”

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      1 year ago

      Desantis is involved in a car accident…to shreds you say? No. I can’t believe this reality.

      Professor Farnsworth: “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”