Yeah we need to get clear that "X form of oppression wasn't as bad as US chattel slavery" is a really really low bar to clearhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/865033828217360384 …
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It's not actually different from picking out specific "nice" slaveowners in the US antebellum South and saying they don't count either
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"Oh this dude wasn't rich, didn't own a plantation, just had a household slave who helped out his wife" - you can find lots of examples
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Antebellum slave owners probably would have seen themselves as superior to, say, ancient Romans, after all, they won't enslave you for debts
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I've considered trying to get people to call the American Civil War the Fourth Servile War
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I found this today and it occurred to me that history is so badly taught in some schools ppl might believe itpic.twitter.com/vLe3UPCwcV
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