US, not africans, responsible for slavery

[Fake Boris]

Slave buyers don't enslave, slavers do.

[Sava]

What a stupid discussion.

Everyone involved with the enslavement of other human beings is evil.

Slavery is evil.

Period.

There is no justification.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The USA had orgnaized slavery for less than 100 years, and got it to begin with as a legacy from Europe. Africa, Asia, and Europe had it for thousands of years, Africa and Asia still have it in some areas. The USA part of slavery is not a very large part of slavery's history in the world, and was struggled with in law and politics for its entire existance here, ulike much of its history elsewhere, where it was mostly accepted as just and rightful for centuries or milleniana.

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Bad troll. No more food for you.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. This one gets a 7/10 just for the responses before you posted this.

Note that the OP has yet to respond in the thread. Note also that it's brought at least two other posters into an exchange of mutual ridicule, again with no further effort by the OP. Throw in the string of incredulous responses and I think it measures up as quite a good troll. After all, even once you had identified its trollish nature, you couldn't help jumping in.

[Sava]

@Lefty: and that's supposed to make it better?


to the whole "the other people are worse than us" argument

[GePap]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
The USA had orgnaized slavery for less than 100 years, and got it to begin with as a legacy from Europe. Africa, Asia, and Europe had it for thousands of years, Africa and Asia still have it in some areas. The USA part of slavery is not a very large part of slavery's history in the world, and was struggled with in law and politics for its entire existance here, ulike much of its history elsewhere, where it was mostly accepted as just and rightful for centuries or milleniana.

1. The US is a continuation of Europe. Americans were transplanted Europeans, speak a European tongue, so forth. So its utterly crazy to speak of the UNited States as anything ohter than part of the western tradition.

2. BY 1850 almost all European states had already banned Slavery in their empires. Portugal and Spain were the two backwards ones, as well as Brazil. Every other independent state in the America's save the US and Brazil had as well. The British actively fought the slave trade. The fact is therefore that while the US as in independent actor exietd only in the tail end of the practice of slavery in the west, the US remained one of the LAST bastions of it. To put it more simply, IIRCD only two republics came into existance in the Western Hemisphere that did not immidiatly ban the practice: the UNited States and Brazil.

3. This sad fact, that the US was one of the last Western states to criminalize slavery is a stain in US history, one that is even more appaling when one considers that the US founded itself upon humanistic liberal values of individual freedom, and yet for a good part of its early history allowed itself to utterly violate these very notions for millions of people on its soil.

[Gatekeeper]

*snort* Slavery was and *IS* a human sin. It's that simple, folks.

[Sava]

"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money." -- Exodus 21:20-21

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by GePap
Besides, as you so unelloquently state...

I think it a bit rich for you to accuse someone of ineloquence without using the correct word.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
silly question, why did you fight a civil wat and not just become 2 different independent countries?

Because Dixie has the majority of great collegiate football teams and is the center for county-western music and peanut butter manufacturing. These are things man cannot live without!!

[GePap]

Originally posted by Jaguar

I think it a bit rich for you to accuse someone of ineloquence without using the correct word.

The message got throught. I am glad to see NVA geek solidarity thought. Very touching. Makes me think of bathrooms and GF problems...

[Winston]

Re: US, not africans, responsible for slavery

Having dutyfully read the thread, I still don't see why any of this matters in the slightest today.

Unless of course you simply like bashing the USA.

[DinoDoc]

We got our revenge by taking over the whole country anyway.

[duke o' york]

Weren't the Egyptians employing slaves before the Greeks and Romans started to?

And the Persians and Babylonians before them?

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by GePap


The message got throught. I am glad to see NVA geek solidarity thought. Very touching. Makes me think of bathrooms and GF problems...

If only you could make cogent arguments as easily as you make stale jokes.