RE: pop morality
February 16, 2016 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2016 at 6:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 16, 2016 at 1:35 pm)Drich Wrote: Open your friggen eyes!Yes, yes, "open my eyes"....the mating call of the loon....
What happened to the American slaves right after they were freed? Did they all move away from the plantations, goto collage and all become doctors and lawyers? No..
Quote:Many slaves went back to africa,....nope, but that's a nice story.
Quote:Many more had to stay where they were because they did not want to leave their lives, their homes.They were no longer property where they lived, in their homes. An improvement.
Quote: those who did took on similar 'jobs'/share croppers which is the illusion of freedom,Excellent, it's good to have a marketable skill. Most of us have sharecropping in our family's past. It was the dominant model.
Quote:but still has you working the same job for the same 'pay.' Very few slaves (volume wise) completely changed their lives. Why? because they couldn't.Slaves don't get paid, there's no need. Just like you don't pay a horse. So, very few slaves changed their lives but many moved back to africa......? If you're going to peddle fantasy, you could at least pick a story and stick with it.
Quote:Education is not a universal fix we pretend it is today. Again not all are equal. Not all can be educated to a profitable level. For those who can't and have only known their vocation their whole life, then that is all they will ever be good for.It isn't, and we aren't...and? Labor can be paid an acceptable wage, we call it a minimum wage here in the states, some of us are working to improve it.
Quote:My grandfather died like this. He was a farmer/slave to empirical Japan, he work his family (annexed by Japan) lands as a slave to provide food for the Japanese war machine. After the war they cut him loose, and what did he do? he kept on farming in his mid 40s this time for the Korean government. Till he was moved here. Then took on the task of 'paying back' the family who moved them here by working a smaller family farm till he had a stroke @ 85 in another mans field, and later died a 'share cropper.'Your grandfather sounds like a great man, you must be what's left.
He knew a life where he lived very well, but after a life time spent in the fields this is all he ever knew and ever wanted for himself. The farmer/share cropper/slave accepted who he was and had no shame in it for him.
Quote:That is what is forgotten when people talk about slavery now. everyone assumes all slaves want what you all have. which for some I would even concede most may or did. but again not all. History records this to be true.Regardless of whether or not all men have wanted to be free, we have abolished slavery and continue the work to eliminate substandard wages and working conditions. Admittedly, there are holdouts like yourself who do neither and may even argue for the necessity of slavery or substandard wages or conditions. Excuse the complicity of yourself and your god some other way, there's nothing for you here.
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