moonshadow comments on Kwame Ture the pitfalls of liberalism

[+] moonshadow@sh.itjust.works -14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

In a prior response I posit slavery was ended by technological progress, specifically the industrialization of agriculture. You contribute nothing here, and the vitriol of your dismissal impedes genuine engagement with those who actually seek it.

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[–] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 14 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Slavery was ended by revolutionary liberation. You think you’re being intellectual (or something) but you’re instead being racist & diminishing the accomplishments of revolutionary black liberators and civil rights leaders etc.

I do not even want to dignify the idea that ”slavery was ended by technological advances in agriculture”. Might be the most racist thing I’ve ever seen on Lemmy so far.

It’s like you guys have meetings on who can be more Nazi Apologist, more ignorantly racist and anti Immigration, and then you say “alright, we’re gonna go be progressive online!”

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[+] moonshadow@sh.itjust.works -9 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

You don't think a cotton gin requiring vastly less effort to maintain/oppress had anything to do with it? This was the one time the American empire engaged in a just war that was in no way economic?

...the very idea might be the most racist thing you've seen on Lemmy so far?

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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago*

The cotton gin intensified and prolonged slavery by making the labor of farming more valuable, cotton harvesting increased almost 20x between 1800 and 1860, with per-slave productivity roughly doubling.

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