Talk About Revisionist History (legal, deaths, Americans, speech)
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What do you not agree with? Calling it batsh*t without saying why or how you disagree with the article isn't exactly enlightening. I, for example, agree with about half of it, but his point of view isn't "batsh*t..." it's valid and some of it is verifiable fact (95% disease deaths, etc).
slavery as an institution was bad, but it is easy to make the argument that it was good for some people in america. ask someone if they would rather live in atlanta, or some 3 world country and see what the response is.
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Originally Posted by Upton
Medved is a bit of a whacko..check out this from a couple months ago, in which he tries to make the case that slavery wasn't that bad after all.
What do you not agree with? Calling it batsh*t without saying why or how you disagree with the article isn't exactly enlightening. I, for example, agree with about half of it, but his point of view isn't "batsh*t..." it's valid and some of it is verifiable fact (95% disease deaths, etc).
The writer is "batsh*t" if he thinks he can simply deny the facts of history. Claiming that the colonizers did not infect the Indians with disease is claiming something that is, in fact, still up for debate in the historical community:
MUCH of it is ridiculous. I don't really care to go into details regarding each facet of distortion in the piece. I just posted it as an example of the complete and utter fantasy that passes for news in some corners of the media.
slavery as an institution was bad, but it is easy to make the argument that it was good for some people in america. ask someone if they would rather live in atlanta, or some 3 world country and see what the response is.
slavery as an institution was bad, but it is easy to make the argument that it was good for some people in america. ask someone if they would rather live in atlanta, or some 3 world country and see what the response is.
I see, so now you and Medved are joined at the hip. Asking a slave's descendants is irrelevant...how about asking a young man or woman who was ripped from the country of his or her birth to be put in chains and on a slave ship...I wonder what their response would be?
reread what I wrote. it was a generic city example. ask a descendant of a slave who lives in the US, if they would rather live where they are at now, or the third world country where they come from. wow is right. how hard anyone tries to twist words. get real.
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Originally Posted by MovingForward
Do they still have slavery in Atlanta? Wow.
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