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minus-squareLaticaudalinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down9·11 months agoI don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.
minus-squaremorphballganon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·11 months agoCan’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-211 months agoI can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter. Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoHere in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoIt took a while to get to that stage though.
minus-squareLaticaudalinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoDo you happen to remember who won that particular scuffle? And who had an enormous statue erected in memorial and is the most popular presidents in history? And whether slavery is in fact still legal or not?
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I don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.
Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.
I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.
Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.
Here in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.
It took a while to get to that stage though.
Do you happen to remember who won that particular scuffle? And who had an enormous statue erected in memorial and is the most popular presidents in history? And whether slavery is in fact still legal or not?
Yes, yes, and yes!