radmonger posted:

Business Gorillas posted:

yikes

Pharohman777 posted:

The tarring of 'white men' as being uniquely evil because of what american minorities and natives experienced at the hands of european settlers is an idea that infuriates any person who has any sort of grasp on where the african slaves came from in africa, or the origins of the word slave.
African slaves were sold off by rival tribes after wars, since the europeans offered a good price for them. Looking at modern tribal tensions in africa, and all the genocides and wars, it is easy to see how they might decide to capture all their rivals and sell them off.
The word Slave is in fact the same as Slav, and referred to eastern european slaves, many of which were brought to Muslim spain.

The idea that their experiences were somehow different than the opression of the irish, or the slavery of the slavic peoples, is maddening to people who know about history.