"Atlantic triangular trade" - texan translation of slave trading

[Wezil]

Gambling was the false hope. Smokes are where the big money is as it is more widespread.

[Wezil]

HC - http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/a...igarettes?bn=1

OTTAWA—Federal government workers and Supreme Court of Canada employees have joined the ranks of high school students as purchasers of illegal smokes, a study by the Canadian Convenience Stores Association says.

Researchers counted cigarette butts outside government buildings and schools in Ottawa to determine how many were contraband. The results show how widespread the problem is and the adverse affect it is having on corner store owners, say the study's sponsors.

“It's everywhere,” Michel Gadbois, senior vice-president of the CCSA, told reporters in the nation's capital, where the association launched its 25-city tour.

It is lobbying the federal government to tackle a seven-year-old problem and whittle illegal sales down.

“Morally, these are places that should be zero per cent because they are government buildings,” Gadbois said.

The butt study results ranged from a high of 39 per cent contraband outside an Ottawa high school to 22 per cent outside the Supreme Court building. Outside the Department of Finance building, the researchers found 32 per cent contraband butts.

Gadbois said the association wants federal and provincial governments to reduce the rate of cigarette smuggling to 10 per cent, from a high of 50 per cent.
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[Theben]

I have to say that all of the apologist crap schools teach about the Indians pisses me off a bit. I can say with certainty that I have never personally given an Indian a smallpox blanket. Furthermore, I refuse to feel guilty about something somebody else did. Politically correct people can piss off.

There's no reason for you to feel guilty about it; such a reaction could only be harmful. I think that all that is asked of you is some understanding but if someone tells you that you should feel bad b/c of X then tell them to sod off.

[monolith94]

Slavery is evil, while triangles are not, so saying "triangular trade" instead of "slave trade" is in fact a euphemism.

Triangle trade isn't necessarily a euphemism of slave trade, as the phrase slave trade is very broad and can refer to any number of historical slave trading routes, whereas the triangle trade was a very specific trade event. It's not like the textbooks are going to blatantly lie about what (and who) was traded by the triangle trade.

[Dr Strangelove]

A bigger question is how the new textbook will deal with the broader subject of slavery in the South, secession and the Civil War? Will it essentially skip over the issue of slavery or perhaps even have a little praise for kindly treatment of black people by their masters? Will it declare that "states rights" was the primary reason for secession? Will it blame the Union for the war?

Maybe it's time for Texas to do away with the old way of buying school books and leave the purchasing to individual districts?

[SlowwHand]

Maybe it's time for your school districts to not follow Texas decisions if you're so against it.

[Hauldren Collider]

SlowwHand's point is sound in the sense that states should (and do) have their own independent school boards but the Texas school board frequently makes decisions based on religion (and are totally open about it) which is clearly unconstitutional.

[SlowwHand]

My point is sound in that Texas is something like the biggest buyer of textbooks and states tend to follow the lead. It's also sound in that if your state doesn't like it, don't follow the lead.
It's again sound because I've been telling you people for years that:

Will it declare that "states rights" was the primary reason for secession? Will it blame the Union for the war?

Why would you not listen to us when we tell you why?

[DaShi]

Because you're wrong.

[SlowwHand]

No, I'm not. Let's prove it.

Let's say DaShi gets popped in the nose by Stangelove. Blood flows.
DaShi wants to know why, and Stangelove tells him.
Up rushes Mr Fun, saying that no, that wasn't the reason. This is the reason.
Strangelove points out that since he was the one that popped DaShi in the nose, he should know.
Mr Fun continues to try and project what was in Strangelove's mind and the motivation.
DaShi believes Mr Fun, and Strangelove justs tells DaShi to believe what you want then.

Let's say that the Southern aristocrats pushed for secession. They owned slaves.
That doesn't explain why millions of men who owned no slaves, yet made up 95% of the agricultural efforts, rushed in to join the Cause.
They told you why. I tell you why. The North didn't and doesn't listen.
So, believe what you want.

[giblets]

People will generally fight for their homeland, even when it's in the wrong. The reasons an ordinary soldier has are not necessarily what the war is about. Look at Nazi Germany. The average German soldier may have been fighting for their country but I'd say the motivations of the Nazis, who were in power, are what lead to the war.

edit: I'm not saying the south was a dictatorship, but it does seem that slaveowners had a lot of political power

[Hauldren Collider]

Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel. Good people.

[DaShi]

No, I'm not. Let's prove it.

Let's say DaShi gets popped in the nose by Stangelove. Blood flows.
DaShi wants to know why, and Stangelove tells him.
Up rushes Mr Fun, saying that no, that wasn't the reason. This is the reason.
Strangelove points out that since he was the one that popped DaShi in the nose, he should know.
Mr Fun continues to try and project what was in Strangelove's mind and the motivation.
DaShi believes Mr Fun, and Strangelove justs tells DaShi to believe what you want then.

And it turns out that Mr Fun was right. Wow, you are stupid.

[Kuciwalker]

Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel. Good people.

Erm. Probably not.

[SlowwHand]

More mindless crap from DaShi

DaShi, I'll just ignore you from now on. You are a dumb sonofa*****.