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White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Slavery was such an ingrained institution that there was for sure some disruption brought by ending it - even some disruption for the enslaved.

People can mine this for evidence that the Union harmed people by ending slavery, but that’s a bad faith outlet for slavery apologists, and nothing more.

Good change can be disruptive. I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though. It’s kind of right there in their name.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though.

    Unless the changes are hiking tariffs, gutting regulations, and embarking on a new generation of wars.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Conservatives were never a "no change" party, anywhere. The thing they were conserving was the unearned privilige and prerogatives of the elite. Conservatism was started as a reaction against Englightment ideas of rule of law, meritocracy and accountability.

    Conservativism has always represented the interests of the elite, whether those interests were precedented (like neoptism) or not (like, say, the enclosure of the commons in the UK).

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