“Owning Slaves Doesn't Make You Racist”

[deckeda]

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d30d...eadmo_test

I can’t even

[Sarcany]

Technically, it makes you both a racist AND a monster.

[rjmacs]

Wow. The depth of ignorance of our history is just as deeply troubling. This is some serious doublespeak.

[Speedy]

‘Birth of a Nation.’

[deckeda]

Speedy wrote:
‘Birth of a Nation.’

I’m reading “Lies My Teacher Told Me.” (James Loewen)

We’re living in the good times.

[hal]

I think everyone knows that all races have been slaves at some point, but to stand in the USA and say that slavery isn't a racist notion is pretty crazy. He's gonna be backpedaling for the rest of his term.

[SteveG]

GOP state Rep. Werner Horn.

The Republicans have a deep, deep bench. This guy is cabinet material.

[Sarcany]

rjmacs wrote:
Wow. The depth of ignorance of our history is just as deeply troubling. This is some serious doublespeak.

I don't think that it necessarily points to ignorance of history.

It simply takes for granted that one can define humans as articles of commerce depending upon their skin-color.

...Which is outrageously racist and in this age points to a serious mental disorder.

Anyone keeping a list of racists in government now that Drumpf has them crawling out from hiding? They should all be kept out of public service, impeached/fired/removed with utmost haste.

[rjmacs]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
Wow. The depth of ignorance of our history is just as deeply troubling. This is some serious doublespeak.

I don't think that it necessarily points to ignorance of history.
The reason I think it does is because in the United States, the history of enslavement is unambiguous. It was absolutely knitted to an ideology of white supremacy, which is the foundation of what constitutes racism in this country.

To say that the institution of chattel slavery was just about the economic survival of early white Americans, and can be explained through market descriptions, belies the reality of our version of enslavement. In our system, slavery was defined in law through systems of racial classification constructed for the purpose. In fact, race exists in U.S. law specifically because of slavery. In our history, race is the sine qua non of slavery.

Denying that either requires deep ignorance, profound denial, or a kind of habitual doublespeak that seeks to muddy history and truth in an effort to hide white supremacy from view.

[Blankity Blank]

I’m becoming convinced that somehow conservatives and the rest of us are actually existing in separate, vastly different co-mingled parallel dimensions and just don’t realize it.

”He later clarified by adding, “I should’ve said European instead of white, but I’m a little less PC than normal people.”

Yeah, ‘normal people’. Yup.