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Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009
I think you're approaching this question in the wrong way. It's not a matter of what 'whites' want or feel is moral. Slavery wasn't the result of some kind of moral failing in our ancestors it was the result of economic necessity. In order to achieve the result they wanted, in order to maintain a lifestyle, the south needed slaves. They came up with various ways to justify their cruelty but racism is just an excuse --- its way to not feel like poo poo for hoping others are disenfranchised so that you may benefit.

Now, today, in this world slavery is not required in our country in order to maintain our lifestyles. Now we can brutalize faceless people thousands of miles away and we don't even need to literally own them because we control their ability to support themselves. Which isn't to say that the US doesn't disenfranchise its own populous because we do but we're specifically talking about slavery and the institution of slavery has become obsolete in the world we live in today.

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Jim Barris
Aug 13, 2009

MarksMan posted:

They are under many delusions. We are the white devils. "We" are holding them back, "we" are supplying all the drugs in the hood, "we" want to keep them down and have vast, elaborate, long-ranging conspiracies to do so.
They're right.

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