Slavery facts they don't teach:
- Every civilization on earth had slaves
- Europeans were the first to ban them
- 1-1.5 million white Europeans got taken by North Africans between 1500-1800
- The Arab slave trade ran 1,300 years and took 18 million African slaves
- In 1830, 3,800 free blacks owned about 20,000 blacks in America
Many act as if slavery was a uniquely American crime.
“One reason,” says author Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630), “is that a lot of black people survived here.”
He argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is just wrong:
There was no "genocide" or "cultural genocide."
Colonization was not evil. In fact, it brought things the FN people wanted such as weapons, furs, opportunities to earn a wage, medical treatment, and safety.
Making A Killing/@One_BCHQ
“100% of all school shooters for the documented 52 years of history we've been tracking them and studying them, 100% of all the shooters were on drugs that are published and prescribed by your medical doctor.”
> remove hero's journey (fascist)
> remove masculinity (toxic)
> remove redemption arcs (excusing harm)
> remove sacrifice (trauma)
> remove beauty standards (problematic)
> remove attractive women (sexist)
> run everything through HR and sensitivity readers
> "why doesn't any art resonate anymore"
you killed it on purpose and now you're confused by the corpse
The Arabs, Turks, and Indians collectively enslaved three times as many people as Europeans, their slave trades lasted three times as long, and the only reason they ended was that Europeans - in particular the British - used military power to force them to stop.
Yet we get the exclusive blame for slavery.
Why?
Simple.
We're the only ones who felt bad about slavery.
Even at the height of the slave trade it was morally controversial. It never sat right with us. We're genuinely ashamed of it.
No one else feels bad about it. At all.
And they know this. They know that the European soul is profoundly empathetic in a way that their own petty, clannish chauvinism is not. And in that universalizing empathic conscience they smell weakness, and in weakness, opportunity.
They remind us endlessly of the role we played in continuing slavery, knowing full well that we will be either too courteous, or too distracted by guilt, to point to the much larger role that they played.
By pressing on that sore nerve they sustain a moral assault on our conscience that they then exploit for financial benefits: welfare parasitism, preferment in admissions and hiring, open borders.
The slave societies have found a way to take their revenge for the end slavery, enslaving us with our own conscience.
And they don't feel the slightest twinge of guilt about that, either.
The Ottoman slave trade, the trans Saharan slave trade, the trans Indian slave trade, lasted for thousands of years and enslaved millions of people… Yet school children are led to believe that slavery was a uniquely European activity.
Now why do you think that is?
🚨 SCOTT JENNINGS: “Can we just go to the data. CNN's own data… President Trump has an 87% approval rating among Republicans, which is higher than Barack Obama's approval rating among Democrats at this point in his term, higher than where George W. Bush was in his term. He is the strongest for his own party, strongest president at this point in his second term in the modern era.”
@Heccles94 I think this is a bad argument. I mean billionaires have been creating jobs for years before AI.
AI will disrupt the world. It has nothing to do with billionaires.
🚨 BREAKING: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just EMBARRASSED MSNBC for thinking they know more about economics than he does 🔥 https://t.co/jqNQ7fN7VF
MSNBC: How does a $20 billion bailout of Argentina help Americans?!
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is?
MSNBC: A currency swap, yes.
BESSENT: But what IS that? Why would you call it a “bailout?” In most bailouts, you don't make money. The US government MADE MONEY!
Never go toe-to-toe with Scott on the economy!
Bill Maher on the Islamic slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: "They are literally trying to wipe out the christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this? They don't care because the Jews aren't involved"