alt.politics.economics

on Fri 05 Oct 2007 04:41:26a
"no surrender" posted
in news:U4ednTjcZJqpvpvanZ2dnUVZ_qelnZ2d@ :

You're a Slavery Apologist?

> Here are six facts about slavery in America:
>
> 1. SLAVERY WAS AN ANCIENT AND UNIVERSAL INSTITUTION, NOT A
> DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INNOVATION.

What is the relevance of this?
Is it a corollary of the axiom:
Two Wrongs Make a Righty?

> 2. SLAVERY EXISTED ONLY BRIEFLY, AND IN LIMITED LOCALES, IN THE
> HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC – INVOLVING ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF
> THE ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S AMERICANS.

Let's see now
1865 - 1776 = 89yrs
2007 - 1776 = 231yrs
89 / 231 = %

Slavery existed throughout % of America's history,
yet it only "existed briefly"?

In limited locales? All of the slave states.

Tiny % of present day American ancestors?
Is this an argument for open borders?

> 3. THOUGH BRUTAL, SLAVERY WASN’T GENOCIDAL: LIVE SLAVES WERE
> VALUABLE BUT DEAD CAPTIVES BROUGHT NO PROFIT.

How uplifting: America, it's not as bad as Pol Pot's Cambodia.

Slaveholders weren't insane, therefore;
they perceived their human chattel to possess real value.
Another fine moral argument here.

> 4. IT’S NOT TRUE THAT THE . BECAME A WEALTHY NATION THROUGH
> THE ABUSE OF SLAVE LABOR: THE MOST PROSPEROUS STATES IN THE
> COUNTRY WERE THOSE THAT FIRST FREED THEIR SLAVES.

What a load of horseshit using this statistic.
The north tended to be more prosperous because they were more
industrialised, whereas the South was mostly agrarian.

> 5. WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF
> SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID
> ABOLITION.

Rapid Abolition? Which of Western Civilisation's countries
abolished slavery after America did?

> 6. THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT TODAY’S AFRICAN-AMERICANS
> WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEIR ANCESTORS HAD REMAINED BEHIND IN
> AFRICA.

A What if Sparticus had a Piper Cub argument?
Which is worse:
Slavery or Imperialistic Colonialism?

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