With the call for 'reparations' progressivism collapses into a cargo cult. - Where does wealth come from? - White man bring it on a plane.
@a_girl_irl Slavery kept a plantation-owning elite in a state of dead-end feudal comfort -- as distinct from capital formation and growth.
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@a_girl_irl Just look at the geography of historical slave ownership -- does it seem to map onto economic dynamism to you? -
@a_girl_irl The idea that the American capital stock is founded on slave labor has absolutely no basis in fact -- it's Hollywood feels.
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