I’m talking takes that make them immediately throw out the civility fetish and reach for the most crying wojack buzzwords in their vocabulary

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    As much as medieval europe abhored slavery, they sure did participate and profit from it. A lot of the ventures that spurred the age of discovery were fuelled by opening new slave markets in West Africa.

    Scientific racism, the curse of ham, civilizing the slaves so they can accept christ etc. are justifications of something that already existed and not the cause.

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      This, Catholic Spain is in the running for biggest genocidal slave empire in history.