Tom Cotton says slavery's "impact on the development of our country" was a "necessary evil"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-development-country-1619-project.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=di&utm_source=tw …
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A Republican says something obviously racist and the
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Those two still out there playing their race cards
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Does "development of our country" mean "creation of the U.S. Constitution" or "economic development"? Seems ambiguous to me. 1/2
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Don’t stop Jonathan. He’s on a roll, nuance be damned. Only bad faith interpretations count.
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In 1792 it may have been possible that “slavery was on the path to extinction”. But after the invention of the cotton gin, that was absolutely no longer the case. Slavery expanded into a huge industry, laws became even more draconian. Too many people were getting weathly.
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This reads FAR too much in between the lines. You are making an inference that I do not believe he was trying to make.
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For the White Man to thrive
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Isn’t the whole point that you couldn’t have gotten the southern states to sign up for the “United States project” if you had abolished slavery and therefore there would not have been a USA? That seems a pretty basic obvious point.
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Sounds like they are arguing with themselves
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