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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The idea that slaves built much of anything is preposterous. I mean, I've known plenty of people who worked as helpers or casual laborers at power plants and automobile manufacturing facilities and shit. They do things like sweep up after the electricians and mechanics and put out snacks for the safety meetings. They are modestly compensated now, but certainly the successors to the slaves in the role they play. If they tried to point at a library full of books or a lot full of shiny new cars and say, "I built that. Yeah, me" people would laugh at them.

Now, if they were to say "Ford didn't really pay me enough" or "Georgia Pacific had shitty benefits," well, OK- that may be valid. But you did not "build" much of anything at all.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I had a prof once that announced to a class full of niggers that black slaves were cost inefficient with productivity compared to white wage/indentured labor. The uproar was amazing they were jumping out of their seats and hollering

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And that is a pretty well-supported technical argument. It's not ad hominem against black people. It's just about the structure of the economy and society.

Good luck making points dispassionately around people under 50, though- or women.

[–]ifuckredditsnitches_Resident Pajeet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What struck me at the time was how emotionally invested blacks were in slavery being integral to the foundation of America. They want to think that slavery was a great injustice but also that slaves were indispensable. The professor was trying to argue that slavery was unjustified in all respects but bruised their ego by doing that

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Clearly some people sold them on that idea of indispensability so that they'd feel good about themselves.

In their honest moments most black people do not believe this idea. If they, or their ancestors, had truly "built" this country, they would treat it better. They would not throw litter all over it, for one thing.