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Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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I think the issue with the downvotes is because you said that slaves could just run away. It comes across like you are simplifying the problem. I don't want to assume that's what was intended, it just doesn't come across well. And, you are correct that modern times still have similar corruption. I just hope society on average understands why it's not okay compared to back then.
It's not that I'm trying to simplify the problem. It's that they're trying to be outraged and looking for something to justify it. It's uncontroversial to say slaves could run away. The runaway/fugitive slave act were written to address it. The underground railroad to facilitate it.
My whole point initially, that being treated like family by a bunch of authoritarian, rape enablers. Isn't the flex Republicans think it is. Everything else is comparable. Yes being considered property is worse than being family to an abuser. Well unless you were female and basically treated as property not all that many decades ago. Both are bad neither are good. But y'all wanna be outraged and see things that aren't there. So have fun.