Oh yeah, the "extension of the family" bit is bogus, but I'm talking about whether chattel slavery existed in 20th-century Cuba in the first place. As far as I can tell it didn't. We shouldn't be meming about stuff that's not even arguably true -- all some chud has to do is link a Wikipedia article, their comment gets a thousand awards thrown at it, and a bunch of people who might have paused to reconsider their view of Cuba get to feel like they were right all along.
There's no need to exaggerate and exaggeration only makes us less credible. Just link that JFK speech where he talks about how fucked Cuba was before the revolution. It's a contemporary source and it's pretty hard to call it propaganda when it's coming from the guy who green-lit the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Oh yeah, the "extension of the family" bit is bogus, but I'm talking about whether chattel slavery existed in 20th-century Cuba in the first place. As far as I can tell it didn't. We shouldn't be meming about stuff that's not even arguably true -- all some chud has to do is link a Wikipedia article, their comment gets a thousand awards thrown at it, and a bunch of people who might have paused to reconsider their view of Cuba get to feel like they were right all along.
There's no need to exaggerate and exaggeration only makes us less credible. Just link that JFK speech where he talks about how fucked Cuba was before the revolution. It's a contemporary source and it's pretty hard to call it propaganda when it's coming from the guy who green-lit the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Agreed. Conditions were still deplorable, and rich people were still exploiting the poor; but the technical difference does matter