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[–]AidsVictim69 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not a victim. I represent a genetic and cultural legacy that survived enslavement, genocide, exploitation, and marginalization, and now I am taking what is rightfully mine.

Your entire self description is just listing the ways you were victimized lol.

Unlike whites, Black people actually have a culture. Learn how to season your food and accomplish anything without genocide and enslavement.

Has there ever been a more degenerate, base, and ephemeral culture than modern black American culture? This is what you're proud of? But I guess if you compare it to some white strawman it seems significant - like the idea that whites don't season their food lmao.

But they didn't, because they bought into the idea of White supremacy, and now their ancestors are paying their debts.

*Descendants.

Slave labor reduces the price of goods and increases production. That means whites had access to jobs and resources generated by the productivity of enslaved Black people. Even families that didn't own slaves benefited from the economic productivity.

You're naively applying generalized labour theory to specialized systems. The vast majority of slave labour was just cash crops. The profits of this exploitation were almost entirely returned to the landowners and re invested into the slave system which was a highly capital intensive system. This neither lowered the price of goods or usefully increased production in any useful way for the majority of whites. Some Southern whites benefitted either because they owned a "family" slave or they profited off trade with Europe for the cash crops. Some civic/infrastructure work was carried out by slaves in limited areas of the South. But in reality the area most enmeshed with slavery was also notably poorer and was never enriched materially any significant way outside the elite Southern aristocracy. The majority of the white population never interacted or materially benefitted from slavery. Whites were the majority of the workers in every class outside some areas of the South, they performed the labour that industrialized the country. Black labour was generally limited to sharecropping in the South (which was neither very profitable compared to the slavery system or beneficial to Southern whites in general) or migrating to the North as scab labour in areas already developed and industrialized by white workers.

If slavery never developed in the US the economic and historical trajectory would have been largely the same because most workers in America have always been white. POC labor was never necessary and if anything their dysfunctional socities have probably been a drain on the development of the country overall.

You mean after Europeans showed up to pillage, spread diseases, rape indigenous people, enslave communities, and commit genocide?

I suppose. Most of those things were happening before Europeans showed up as well. Pre colonial American history is full of imperialism, violence, genocides, and plagues.

You mean Black and Indigenous people have a lower score on a metric created by White people that has no real application to actual life? Shocking.

IQ is the best predictor of overall life success for the average person in almost every category, whether they are white or not, whether they live in the West or not. But if you think it doesn't matter you can go live in societies where people have low IQ. Please do.