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Media Outrage over Racist Statements

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11-02-2018, 12:56 AM

(11-01-2018, 11:12 PM)mikesez Wrote: You are attempting to go even further back into history to pull off a tu quoque. So even if you have your history right you are committing a logical fallacy.
Slavery is wrong. It is always wrong. If I decide to buy a slave that somebody else has already captured and humiliated, and I keep that person in servitude, I am just as guilty as the original slaver. It's not like buying a big screen TV that the seller stole from your neighbor's house. a big screen TV could be owned legitimately or be stolen goods. A slave is always stolen goods.
Any discussion of slavery is also a discussion of if all humans have agency and dignity, or not.
You're trying to give the white race credit for giving the black race something that they deserved all along anyhow, and it doesn't really indicate that you understand the dignity and agency of all people in all times.


You misunderstood my entire post. You're getting two points confused with each other.

SignMeUpAtQB said that white people are responsible for the slavery of Africans and are suffering from the "consequences" thereafter. I disagree with that statement. I'll repeat what I said: Maybe you can explain how it was the European's fault that Africa suffers from the effects of slavery but not simultaneously the fault of other Africans and Arabs. Thus the blame would fall equally on everyone and not blames almost exclusively on whites.

Europeans can't be blamed without first blaming Africans and Arabs.  This isn't to diminish the effect of slavery but instead to show that maybe everything isn't the white man's fault. Especially since they were doing it before and are still doing it today. 

I'm not giving white people credit for something they deserved all along. I agree that they deserved it all along. I'm explaining Horowitz's point is that very few white people owned slaves, and white people as a whole are blamed for slavery. Similarly, Horowitz tried to explain that many white people fought and died to ensure that slaves were given rights. Do you think they had to do that? Horowitz is trying to say that white people voted and died for the rights of slaves. Somewhere around 1-2% of the population died fighting for their rights. You can't just dismiss that, and that is what Horowitz believed.
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homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 10-31-2018, 10:57 PM
RE: homebiscuit - by Jagwired - 11-01-2018, 07:41 AM
RE: Media Outrage over Racist Statements - by JagNGeorgia - 11-02-2018, 12:56 AM



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