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Thebestoftherest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 10:23 pm
Umm concidering how they remove all possible gay characters from the star wars prequel trilogy to keep the racist chinese happy I have to question your sources.
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Rocketboy1313 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:29 am
What the hell has this thread turned into?
It's like Katamari, all threads eventually get swallowed up by the same stupid arguments.
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I think the point originally being gotten at was that you cannot judge people from hundreds of years ago by today's standards. And if you say that there was abolitionist views even in Washington's time, was "slavery is bad" the majority opinion then? If not, wile the institution was still wrong, you can't say the individuals within it were pure evil.
I don't just because something was right at the time doesn't mean we can't judge them, because in doing so we learn from our failings and actually become better people.
Dragon Ball Fan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:27 pm
I think the point originally being gotten at was that you cannot judge people from hundreds of years ago by today's standards. And if you say that there was abolitionist views even in Washington's time, was "slavery is bad" the majority opinion then? If not, wile the institution was still wrong, you can't say the individuals within it were pure evil.
It also applies to the other side. Just because someone was anti-slavery doesn't make them the good guys either. When I took American history in college we read some examples of abolitionist literature leading up to the civil war and most of it talked more about social stratification and the dangers of a slave owning elite class. There was an opinion that slavery was evil because it was allowing wealthy whites to dominate poor whites, never mind about the blacks. Lincoln once gave a speech about how slavery was bad because it was allowing otherwise productive land to go unused.
