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Hatred of woman is the beginning of all wisdom.

@nxt888 Africa would be richer, more powerful, less reliant and more advanced had slavery never ended. The abolition of slavery underdeveloped Africa. The reason there weren’t more Ethiopias, the reason colonization happened in the first place, was because slavery ended.

The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist. It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in. The financial institutions. The insurance markets. The shipping routes. The racial categories. The colonial borders. The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today. The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased. It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical. They are present. You don't single it out to assign ancient blame. You examine it to understand current reality. The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today. Specific, traceable, present consequences do.

@nxt888 Wrong but this is good deep-history teaching moment. All enslaved people enslaved. Without exception.

"Most participated in it" and "most found it acceptable" are not the same sentence. The enslaved people did not find it acceptable. They constituted, at various points, the majority of the population in the societies that held them. When you say "most," you are counting only the people whose acceptance was never in question, the people on the profitable side of the arrangement. The people who resisted, revolted, ran, and died fighting it were also "most people." You've defined the moral consensus of slavery by asking only the slaveholders whether they consented to it.

@Valoxis @nxt888 The subhumanity of blacks is older than that, it came from the Umayyads

@nxt888 It also is responsible for legally dehumanizing an entire race as subhuman property stripping agency from an entire race which directly influenced the nazis. White racist desperately want to minimize just how horrible chattel slavery was to Black people. It was pure evil.

@JamesSurowiecki @romanhelmetguy It’s For You, brother

@romanhelmetguy Twitter's constantly putting you into my feed, so it's hard to avoid.

Christopher Nolan and Emily Wilson as Roman Helmet Guy chatters on at them:

@moultano It is a testament to your profound stupidity that you would ever feel confident asserting that something as profound as the integration of foreigners into an alien society can be willed into being by policy. You either don’t know what that means or are lying through your teeth.

The fastest way to fully integrate immigrants into our culture and society is to speedily grant them the security, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship.

@BIMBOSATTVA_ @taco121241 They were always competing for work.

@taco121241 Most of the animosity between blacks and borderers is post-civil war animosity because now blacks and borderers were competing for work... and corporations used this as a good way to shut down labor organizing by pitting hicks and blacks against one another

The thing with black people in America is that they're culturally white scotch-irish people with black skin but their culture is basically 1:1 with other poor white southerners I think this is really important to understanding African Americans but nobody cares about history

@BIMBOSATTVA_ @taco121241 The people who interacted with and had the most positive interactions with blacks were the planters. Raised by big Mandingo mammies, counseled by the old house nigga, ‘been at the plantation all his life, etc.

@taco121241 Scotch-Irish were the lowerclass who often interacted with blacks and were good friends with them, African American culture largely comes downstream of positive interactions with Borderers and negative interactions with Planter Cavaliers, (I be running) is a Cavalier speechway

@BIMBOSATTVA_ @taco121241 All laughably flimsy connections

@taco121241 The clannish nature and the way they name their gangs, have gangwars over completely nonsensical shit, and rap like ulster-scotch borderer bards about their criminality, 100% borderer & cavalier servant (think bristol slave markets) cultural infusion

@Aksinia00447 @kiarakamn "...men exclusively responsible..."

@cl1fford17 @kiarakamn Not at anywhere near the rate of men

This is a good example of how men confuse objective morality with how sexually threatened they are Woman cheating makes them sexually insecure = "unthinkable evil, take away their rights" Meanwhile men exclusively responsible for raping & killing women children & animals

@zagrebbi Fucking challahshark

@KinderheimRune @IberianMantis Don’t say that

@IberianMantis The only relationship that matters is the one with your parents and wife

@r_mfl1 @efflorscence It’s none of your business what men do with their own bodies

@efflorscence Or when men reaches over 40 years of age and think the low libido is some health problem. Yes, the pharmaceutical and porn told you so

sometimes i truly can’t believe that we have to hear about men needing sex every day (& if they don’t get it, they’ll voyeuristically jerk off to it) as if that’s a completely normal human male libido & not a product of porn. there is no evolutionary basis to men being

@efflorscence 👏No 👏penis 👏no👏opinion👏

@robkhenderson I love how actual existing DEI is dignified as “emancipation” while the legitimate cornerstone of societal propagation is made out to be a favor to men. As if men particularly *need* to have offspring. Insane

My latest for WSJ "Female emancipation reduced the utility of...'low-value men'..in previous decades, monogamous marriage was 'DEI for men,' meaning it used to be easier for men to find partners, regardless of their own level of success or attractiveness" wsj.com/opinion/free-e…

@Janfreterson @McHeartattack3 @armsq17 Says who?

@McHeartattack3 @armsq17 It’s bad when Humans think they’re god.

Income inequality is a fake concern. It was only after capitalism had largely eradicated actual poverty that neo-Marxists started rambling about inequality. It’s best to ignore the issue completely, since treating it as meaningful can lead people to very silly and dangerous conclusions (the chart below is a good illustration).

@melfmaster @armsq17 @Janfreterson assets are not a zero sum game lol.

@armsq17 @Janfreterson Assets are a 0 sum game, the working class objectively becomes "dispossessed" if more assets get concentrated in the Elite Wealth inequality is simply a close reflection of that.

@Janfreterson @armsq17 Wealth is something that is created, not a discrete quantity that is divided.

@armsq17 So let me get this straight. If one person got 99% of the wealth, you would not have an issue with this? That would not make you nervous? You would not anticipate problems?

@InfraWeek @DanteJeffe14617 @CoreyWriting Nah, you’re just deeply misinformed and poorly read.

@cl1fford17 @DanteJeffe14617 @CoreyWriting Alright now you’re just trying to rage bait—and not very cleverly.

America's norms are no longer dominated by WASPs. Our norms are dominated by "ethnic" Europeans such as the Irish, Polish, Italians, and Scottish. These folks have always been way more showy. The rise of Donald Trump is the ultimate embodiment of this.

@InfraWeek @DanteJeffe14617 @CoreyWriting Again, ahistorical.

@cl1fford17 @DanteJeffe14617 @CoreyWriting You’re saying that an example of discrimination is actually proof of the absence of discrimination? Are you dumb? WASP elites completely controlled the US for at least half of its existence, when there was undisputed discrimination against blacks, Asians, Catholics, Jews, etc.