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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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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It seems that Chattel Slavery in the Americas was particular vicious and exploitative, or do you think time just softened our view of slavery in antiquity?
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Slavery in antiquity was worse in many ways.
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Your use of "outgroup" disguises and conceals what is at the heart of slavery and racism - the belief that certain people were savages, less than human and could be treated as animals. Saying it was all about profits is irritating as hell.
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Isn't often the outgroup was racially different?
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