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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
Sun Jul 23, 2023, 10:09 PM Jul 2023

So, the Florida scumbag is trying to tell us slavery was a good...

thing after all.

Well, no doubt one or two slaves díd well, that's just elementary statistics. It's like saying we actually learned something from Japan's Unit 731,or Mengele's basements. What the civilized world was told it learned was completely irrelevant, or even opposite to medicine in the 1940s.

Slavery has been around since pre-Roman times, but rarely has it been shown in such a good light.

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So, the Florida scumbag is trying to tell us slavery was a good... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 OP
Desantis, serious campaign advice for you BOSSHOG Jul 2023 #1
It's mystifying gratuitous Jul 2023 #5
Would love for Keith Obermann to offer to donate to DeeSantis' campaign Best_man23 Jul 2023 #9
Cheaper/more efficient to sell your children into slavery than pay for college. keithbvadu2 Jul 2023 #2
Careful...careful... moondust Jul 2023 #3
Someone should ask Trump his opinion Diraven Jul 2023 #4
Maybe we can sell him to the Orion Syndicate. hunter Jul 2023 #6
Leave it to a cheap, duplicitous Hitler wanna-be to try and steal the accomplishments B.See Jul 2023 #7
He may be trying to show it in a "good" light but for arthritisR_US Jul 2023 #8

BOSSHOG

(37,122 posts)
1. Desantis, serious campaign advice for you
Sun Jul 23, 2023, 10:14 PM
Jul 2023

Prove your point. Become a slave for ten years. In conditions that existed for slaves in the 17th century. Then go on the lecture circuit advocating for slavery. That won’t happen because you’d end up in a paupers grave in less then six months. Get a fucking life punk, instead of aggravating the fuck out of the rest of us with your namby pamby Ronnie drama.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. It's mystifying
Sun Jul 23, 2023, 11:31 PM
Jul 2023

Why don't Ron and his pals volunteer to be slaves? Shouldn't they be eager to demonstrate their historical thesis?

Best_man23

(4,910 posts)
9. Would love for Keith Obermann to offer to donate to DeeSantis' campaign
Mon Jul 24, 2023, 07:58 AM
Jul 2023

Perhaps $500 for every day DeeSantis agrees to live under and endure slave conditions. This has to go 24/7 as DeeSantis should live in the same sort of poor accommodations afforded to slaves. Slave quarters and the unsanitary conditions present often resulted in the spread of malaria, typhus, cholera, dysentery, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.

Someone should ask Gubner Noun/Verb & Woke how blacks who endured slavery "benefited" from being exposed to these diseases? Or how they "benefited" from having their family members and children sold off?

I think KO still has a standing $$$ offer for Hannity to undergo waterboarding and then say its not torture.

keithbvadu2

(36,949 posts)
2. Cheaper/more efficient to sell your children into slavery than pay for college.
Sun Jul 23, 2023, 11:17 PM
Jul 2023

Cheaper/more efficient to sell your children into slavery than pay for college.

B.See

(1,310 posts)
7. Leave it to a cheap, duplicitous Hitler wanna-be to try and steal the accomplishments
Mon Jul 24, 2023, 01:04 AM
Jul 2023

of Black people who achieved greatness IN SPITE slavery. Conniving little b----------.

Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves.

“Normally publishing a grievously racist notion like ‘slaves benefited from slavery’ would be considered an embarrassment and quickly withdrawn. But not for Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, where doubling down on this noxious claim is seen as a badge of honor.”

Several critics argued that nearly half of the 16 historic figures highlighted by the state were never enslaved. Others, who did spend time in slavery, did not gain their skills from their servitude.

“They just threw out a bunch of names to make it seem like something good came of (slavery),” said Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association teachers union. “The reality of it is, the facts don’t back up what they are saying.”


arthritisR_US

(7,300 posts)
8. He may be trying to show it in a "good" light but for
Mon Jul 24, 2023, 01:21 AM
Jul 2023

feck sake it was anything but that. I’m a Canadian and what we did to our Indigenous people we have still not owned up to, we are so feeble it’s pathetic, l’m disgusted and I don’t know what to do

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