Just a Reminder: Slavery was Evil

At the risk of upsetting my Republican friends*, I would like to remind them that slavery was a very bad institution. The idea of owning people, forcing them to work, fuck and serve someone 24 hours a day at their master's whim was bad. It is (in my estimation, although not the Bible's) an evil.

You may think this is obvious. As obvious as the fact Nazi Genocide of Jews was bad. 

But Republicans right now are defending it. It being, yes, I swear to God, slavery.

Tennessee State Representative, Republican Justin Lafferty just defended the 3/5 compromise in the US Constitution (where in the census a slave was valued as 3/5 of a "real" person) as the slave states "realizing that slavery was wrong". It was not. It was a "compromise" that let slave states have many more votes than they had free (and voting) population. In fact, it perpetuated the power of slave holders (link to the fucking idiot).

Then there was the Louisiana Republican representative Ray Garofalo who this week argued that we shouldn't dwell on the negative and should teach "the good of slavery" (link to this fucking idiot).

Just to add another dumb-fuckery talking point about minorities we treated horribly, Rick Santorium, who received millions of votes for President said this: “We birthed a nation from nothing,” he said. “Yes, there were Native Americans, but there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”  (if you need the link)

The only way to function day to day in this country were 70% of Republicans believe our election was fraudulent and 67% of them won't get a Covid vaccine because they are afraid of tracking chips in the vaccine and where we haven't gone a week without a mass shooting event - is to pretend all is great.

So yeah, all is fucking great here.

*My guess is that by this point I no longer have any Republican friends. But I live in hope.

The actual reason this shit is rising to the surface of the shit pond is that the Republican - Fox - outrage machine is freaking out that "critical race theory" might start being taught in schools. This is the teaching that while the United States has many great features and history, there is also some not great history. Those items being, slavery was bad, slaves built a lot of this country, killing all the Indians was a bad idea AND we didn't end all racism at the end of the civil war and we, as a country, need to be better.