Psychologists once diagnosed slaves with “drapetomania” a “disorder of slaves who have a tendency to run away from their owner due to an inborn propensity for wanderlust”. Any amount of intellectual dissonance is acceptable if it shields oppressors from self-awareness.
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“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” —William Faulkner “If you don’t know what happened behind you, you don’t know what is happening around you.” —James Baldwin
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"Look what you made me do"
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Exactly. I see it that way, too.
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It's an apt analogy. As well as all the 'conservatives' who blame the victims of police officer shootings because they were "resisting" illegitimate police enforcement tactics.
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In this debate on slavery held in Cincinnati in 1845, N. L. Rice, a pro-slavery minister, makes exactly this point, blaming abolitionists for forcing Kentucky masters to sell slaves to "hard-hearted" masters in the Deep South. https://archive.org/details/adebateonslaver02ricegoog/page/n48 …
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The past does not pass, it accumulates.
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My dude. Don't compare slavery to voluntary immigration.
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The dehumanization is connected though.
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If a child dies in the hospital, it's Trump's fault. Got it Sherlock, if anything happens it's always Trump's fault, never the parents that play with their child's lives.
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I think you’re missing the point...
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He'll be on the right side of history.
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Apparently history is only useful if it's the founding fathers history right?
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Looking at the list, if I take off the bottom two in the interest of benefit of the doubt and semantics, I see no lies. What am I missing?
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