Were Confederate soldiers terrorists?

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

It's like you was saying water is 'more wet'.

*were

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.

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.

At no point did I say it was humane.

It's like saying a man is 'more humane' because he beats his dog a little less.

He is, compared to the man who beats his dog to death.

What exactly is compassionate about keeping slaves?

I said nothing of compassion. Where do you come up with this stuff?

You based an entire post of things I didn't say.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

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.

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.

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.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

*were

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.


At no point did I say it was humane.


He is, compared to the man who beats his dog to death.
correct.

No matter how you cut it, there is no way with numerous documentations and citation that US chattel slavery was 'more humane'. It's still a crime against humanity.

This is why some people still get pissed when symbols of the South are venerated because it is still a dark reminder to what could have been.

As some posters stated earlier ad nauseum, the Confederate flag is almost along the same lines as the Nazi swastika and in some ways even moreso.

Opponents of the Confederate flag see it as an overt symbol of racism

Others view the flag as a symbol of rebellion against the federal government of the United States

And what doesn't help is that hate groups in the US rally behind the flag.

It's funny when you think about it because the swastika was the same way as it is used as a religious Hindu symbol and was found in Pre Christian Europe. Thanks Germany.

...and where did I get "compassion" from? Well next time in your efforts to correct me, try looking up the definition of the word, "humane".

When you say that slavery was "more humane" you are saying that masters here showed "more compassion" for their 3/5th of a human they kept. I call it bullshit.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

No matter how you cut it, there is no way with numerous documentations and citation that US chattel slavery was 'more humane'. It's still a crime against humanity.

This is why some people still get pissed when symbols of the South are venerated because it is still a dark reminder to what could have been.

As some posters stated earlier ad nauseum, the Confederate flag is almost along the same lines as the Nazi swastika and in some ways even moreso.

Opponents of the Confederate flag see it as an overt symbol of racism

Others view the flag as a symbol of rebellion against the federal government of the United States

And what doesn't help is that hate groups in the US rally behind the flag.

It's funny when you think about it because the swastika was the same way as it is used as a religious Hindu symbol and was found in Pre Christian Europe. Thanks Germany.

...and where did I get "compassion" from? Well next time in your efforts to correct me, try looking up the definition of the word, "humane".

When you say that slavery was "more humane" you are saying that masters here showed "more compassion" for their 3/5th of a human they kept. I call it bullshit.

This!

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

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.

I completely ignored the OP and you didn't have to follow the white rabbit down the hole.