Originally Posted by
francesco.decaro
Are you seriously comparing people living in the US under the british crown to black people being enslaved?
I didn't say slavery started and ended in the US. I just said slave owners knew perfectly well how fucked up it was to own another human being, they just didn't care until they had too. Unless you are suggesting humans did not develop empathy until slavery was abolished in america?
I also didn't say they were racist, slavery obviously had to do with money and production, it just happened to be that the people that became slaves were from Africa and were under developed. But we've had african people enslaving african people, you got chinese people enslaving other chinese people. The methods may be different but the intentions are the same.
Slavery still exists to this day, it's not as open and obvious or accepted as it was back then, but it does. Is it because modern slave owners are just men of their time or mabye because some humans are pieces of shit?
If you think you can own a person's life and freedom without their consent, then you are a bad person. Slavery is not different based on timelines, it is always a fucked up way to treat other human beings.
I understand what you're trying to get to here, context. But in my opinion it is not applicable here, unless you can prove slavery does not exist anywhere anymore
And especially considering how some of you are talking about these slave owners as enlightened men.
They were enlightened enough to write a constitution and understand what freedom is, but not enough to understand that the 4 million slaves owned by americans may want the same freedom too?