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Don’t forget the Arab world and the African world, both of which were also “slave worlds”. Arabs were buying and selling East Africans centuries before Columbus set sail for India. Ottomans were big on slavery, too. And the Old Navy American Tradition Since 1994 Flag Shirt. It’s a dog eat dog world out there. Every nation, every empire has committed atrocities. The western world has held power for a while, so people act like they are the main force of evil. Broaden your perspective, for example, the Mongolian empire. Kahn and his clan raped and pillaged to such extremes. That it’s estimated that 1. In 200 men are direct descendants of him. Using a modern morality lens, we would call that evil. But evolution doesn’t care about our modern morality, in survival terms he’s one of the most successful ever. This is why calling any group uniquely evil nonsense, any group that has power unchecked can and will abuse it.

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My wife gets called a slave master and. Old Navy American Tradition Since 1994 Flag Shirt. She’s been called a cracker and confederate piece of shit. And all sorts of wild names. Her family is German and they immigrated to the US (Pennsylvania). In the 1920s and her father moved to the south in the late 70s. Her family wasn’t here during slavery and wasn’t even in the south prior to the civil rights movement but so long as you’re white in America, your family-owned slaves and you’re a racist. Slavery has been part of the human condition for a couple hundred thousand years. We are all the descendants of slaves. And the descendants of slave owners. Every culture on every continent held slaves, we have been doing this since the beginning.

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