Comment on Based Red Dead
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 15 hours agoAre you saying white slavery was as systemic and width spread as black slavery in America? If so I’ve missed a big part of the American slave history.
Comment on Based Red Dead
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 15 hours agoAre you saying white slavery was as systemic and width spread as black slavery in America? If so I’ve missed a big part of the American slave history.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
No, I’m just saying what I wrote. It is not meant to be an equality or anything else but just a statement that it is good without any slavery no matter what origin, skin color and (even if I am an atheist and despise any religion) religious affiliation. It was also not referring to Americans but a general statement.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Sure, but the image is about a game taking place in American history. I agree that no slavery is good but you comment doesn’t add much to the historical context. If anything removes nuance.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Would be good without modern slavery right? Penal labor. But well affected are black white whatever.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 hours ago
There is a certain type of whataboutism where people are just super eager to remind people that “well, actually, white people were slaves too” when referring to slavery in America. It’s likely why they appear to be more on guard about what you’re saying.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
what is it that drives the desperate need you have to bring it up in this context?
the vast majority of people who know history know about indentured servitude. but it’s a footnote compared the the millions of people systematically stolen (not indentured, note), taken to another part of the planet and bred for labor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Yes ok then say that you are happy that slavery of black people has stopped and that you don’t care about any other form of slavery. < That’s what the statement suggests because you’re not talking about slavery in general but explicitly about black slaves…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
pfft that’s the most 13-year old racist edgelord shit I’ve heard in ages.
No, that’s not what that says, you silly twat, lol… ok so there’s this thing called context. And the context in which slavery was introduced, in this thread, was regarding the protagonist in the game going after slavery supporters.
AND YOU HAD TO FUCKIN’ CHIME IN BUT BUT NOT ALL SLAVES-
motherfucking couldn’t resist the urge. So answer the fucking question: what is it, inside you, that is so desperate that you need to reply with that specious bullshit?
TAKEN IN THE CONTEXT OF RDR2, the history of the US, it’s referring to the human stain of racists enslaving black people for their entire lives, and the lives of their children in perpetuity. a very different thing compared to what irish indentured servants experienced.