I deleted a tweet about slavery not because I don't stand by it, but because I phrased it in an unclear way and people were interpreting it in a way I did not mean. To clarify:
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Slavery, historically, has often not been among racial lines.
It has been historically against the 'outgroup'. In the US, black skin was a very easy indicator of this outgroup.
Slavery was done because it was profitable, and permissable because it was the outgroup.
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My recent tweets have been in the context of people trying to redefine the word 'racism' to mean 'systemic racism', which as far as I'm aware is largely a US discussion and is in the context of race-based slavery and heavily influenced by skin tone.
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