(May 28, 2013 at 9:04 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote:(May 12, 2013 at 9:13 am)dazzn Wrote: I am black, and even in some part descended from slaves.
However, I will say this. I don't give a shit about "slavery".
Even if it used by historic revisionists? Or when it is still active???
What does someone like you, who decends from slaves feel, if a Michele Bachman says, slavery was abolished when the USA were founded?
Or when people say it wasnt so bad in the first place?
Quote: This for the following reasons:
- Human beings are cruel. Get over it. We're a savage species at our root. Just a cursory glance at how we behave lends to this.
Is that a joke????
Next time I sit in court being prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity, I`ll borrow that "argument".
I will let you know what the judge thinks.
Quote:- Most blacks who claim to hate whites over slavery are total hypocrites. If racism is bad, then it cannot be used to serve your own agenda. If something is deemed wrong, it cannot be right when YOU use it. You are no better than the racist "evil" (lulz.. evil doesn't even exist) white people.
So what about reconciliation????
It might be less of a matter here since it all happened 200 years ago.
But when arguing that a crime or discrimination is not allowed to be used for political argument, then one may ask:
Do the Kurds deserve a independent and safe state after being persecuted and buthered for centuries?
Do the jews deserve their own state after the holocaust?
Do the Bosniacs deserve their own safe nation after the attrocities commited against them during the balkan wars?
Quote:- What does being angry do exactly? Will your anger travel back in time to 1750 or whenever, unshackle your ancestor on the slave ship and send him or her back to Africa?
I do not see at what you are going at????
Historic facts are historic facts. As I see it, the biggest problem are revisionists who change history to fit their agenda.
Other than that, historic events can easily show how certain political agendas are nececery to preven "history from reoccuring".
Like the Holocaust, or the balkan wars.
like most in my generation, i take an anything goes measure to morals. slavery HAPPENED, get over it. people in early modern times thought it was right, that's all that's sufficient.
