Ignoring the fact that's not an actual inevitable rule, you still wouldn't expect the degree of stupidity of seeing them as Literally Sub-Sapient Livestock.
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(Glances at 19th century chattel slavery and years of heavily conditioned propaganda depicting African-Americans as a borderline inhuman subspecies) I'm really not following your train of logic here. Funniest thing is, you're usually bemoaning "sympathetic forces of evil."
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @loudpenitent and
Hector duped into believing hey, maybe these faschy vampires with dreams of empire aren't so bad, they have *culture* until Lenore pulls the rug from under his feet made me think about your thread a few weeks back about a hero who invades Heaven and leads Evil to conquer Good.
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My point was less about the evil per se, although to be absolutely clear I actually find Ellis' sheer misanthropy profoundly tiring, and more just the entire mindset makes no fucking sense. Chattel slavers claimed they were benevolent stewards, even if they were evil fucks.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @fiddlersgreen92 and
...They did when they were *arguing with people* in order to politically justify what they did The evidence is that outside of the propaganda deliberately spread to the North and into other countries to protect themselves, they didn't really believe the hype in day-to-day life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Maybe there were some slaveowners who really were mired in Orwellian doublethink and constantly lying to themselves and emotionally tortured because of the dissonance between their self-image as benevolent fathers to their enslaved "families" and the cruel reality
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
But come the fuck on According to their own recorded sentiments from when they were in private, and based on their own daily actions, and based on the testimonies of enslaved people themselves, this is just garbage They happily oppressed people because they liked doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
The fact they were so terrified of slave revolts and took such extreme precautions against it shows they knew damn well what they were doing
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Replying to @wfrolik @loudpenitent and
One of the biggest cleavages between the propaganda they put out and what they said to themselves behind closed doors was how in the outside world raping a slave - or having sex with a Black woman at all - was his massive taboo, the worst thing a plantation owner could do
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Replying to @arthur_affect @wfrolik and
To the point where accusing someone of it was grounds for them to kill you to defend their honor But it OBVIOUSLY happened ALL THE TIME and everyone KNEW who the resulting children were And the men's discussion of the matter with each other was FILLED with wink-nudge references
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They even had a special section in the papers for slave trading for the "fancy trade", their euphemism for the trade in sexually attractive young women
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