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?
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.
B-b-but rifles are instruments of *gasp* violence!!!
actually violence is okay for liberals if it’s perpetuated by the state*
*must be white