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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
It's like you was saying water is 'more wet'.
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No it's like saying you're less fat. If you weighed nine hundred pounds and lost 20, you got less fat. You're still fat as hell, but you're less fat.
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Either way what you said just doesn't make sense. When people are systematically killed and their culture is wiped out after living on these shores, humane is the farthest word that comes to mind.
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At no point did I say it was humane.
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It's like saying a man is 'more humane' because he beats his dog a little less.
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He is, compared to the man who beats his dog to death.
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What exactly is compassionate about keeping slaves?
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I said nothing of compassion. Where do you come up with this stuff?
You based an entire post of things I didn't say.
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It didn't. But, you do dislike the difference between "it's" and "its."  |
Haha, now that's fact. I guess I don't pay attention to it, which is awful...but spell check always corrects me on it even if I didn't know I made a mistake.
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As for what you said, I disagree with people's (usually white people's) need to quantify and compare everything. Slavery can stand alone without being compared to anything. It was a shitty practice regardless of the fact that slavery existed outside of North America and whether or not conditions were as horrendous as reported.
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Absolutely and totally agreed. If you'll notice though, the argument was started by the poster saying that the slavery here was the most egregious of all slavery, as if it were some sort of "slavery-exceptionalism". Which, in turn, I responded that his assessment wasn't entirely correct.