It *is* typically true that the issue is presented in American political debate shorn of its historical & global context.
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“Muslims were big slave traders” is such a strange counterpoint to the 1619 project.
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If the point is "we didn't invent slavery," I'm not sure who it's even countering. Nobody walked out of Gladiator asking "Wait, Russell Crowe was a SLAVE? Those existed BEFORE America?" It's not surprising discussions of slavery's legacy in America center on American slavery.
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The other issue is in trying to defend the Founders, it actually goes too far in the opposite direction and smears them by implying slavery was just an accepted norm. Plenty of them were against it! There were slaveowning founders well aware how bad it looked!
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