Source: https://lemmy.ml/post/54960202/28843231

Someone’s being all spiritual and transcendent on a thread about Kwame Ture’s quote on liberalism.

Slaves fighting for their freedom shouldn’t use violence because they’re just going to become slavers themselves (THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT THEY THINK)

What were those people before being enslaved,

What do you think they are implying here?

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    You don’t think a cotton gin requiring vastly less effort to maintain/oppress had anything to do with it?

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU FUCKING IDIOT THAT WAS THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE THAT ENSURED SLAVERY PERSISTED FOR ANOTHER SEVERAL DECADES YOU PIECE OF SHIT, IT DID EXACTLY THE FUCKING OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IT DID. GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!

    PS: Can someone please point this out to this asshole? I don’t really want to dig up my .ml password just to get into an argument with this fucking numbnut

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Eli Whitney even said as much. He regretted its invention because it actually made slavery more profitable. His rediscovery of interchangeable parts had more impact on ending slavery because it allowed the Union to build more rifles than the south. It was rifles he used to demonstrate in front of congress the practicality of interchangeable parts.

      It’s like in order to be a liberal, you have to just ignore all of history and make up your own fanfiction.

      • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        His rediscovery of interchangeable parts had more impact on ending slavery because it allowed the Union to build more rifles than the south.

        B-b-but rifles are instruments of *gasp* violence!!!

    • EmmiLime@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      PS: Can someone please point this out to this asshole? I don’t really want to dig up my .ml password just to get into an argument with this fucking numbnut

      I was about to point out that hexbear can post on .ml but then I try to view the thread on hexbear and apparently .ml hasn’t been updated in many days for this instance?