(02-17-2023, 09:58 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(02-17-2023, 09:45 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Stop using your brain power to win an argument and start using it to think about why you are saying racism is a traditional value, while also admitting that all people don't share that tradition.

There was a long, slow, and violent march of progress in the west BY THE WEST to eradicate slavery and racism, not just in our own countries, but worldwide. So much so, that it has become a value in this country NOT to be racist. Why did that happen in the West and nowhere else, Mikey? Do you ask yourself that question EVER?

What a silly question.
Let's take "the west" to mean western Europe.  Indeed, western Europeans like Sonthonax and Wilberforce did start and lead the effort to eradicate slavery from the Western Hemisphere.  But it was Western Europeans themselves who, two centuries earlier, had established African slavery in the Western Hemisphere in the first place, on a scale and over a distance that was previously unimaginable.  So who else was going to lead the eradication effort? Morally, is this anything more than a wash?

No. It's not a wash, you nincompoop. 

Slavery was an accepted practice and already common across the globe. Africans enslaved each other. Europeans enslaved each other. Native Americans enslaved each other. Asians enslaved each other (still do). 

Europeans didn't invent slavery. They harnessed new technologies, which gave them a dominance that was unique in world history. The only thing that changed was the reach. That doesn't give them a reason to stop the practice of slavery. So, Mikey, I ask you again. What VALUE or VALUES caused the WEST to be unique in history and eradicate slavery when they had the capability to continue enforcing it?

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