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Thread #169497   Message #4096936
Posted By: Mrrzy
09-Mar-21 - 09:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Activists are bonkers about history!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Activists are bonkers about history!!!
Well, not really. You have explained well why you don't like the source. But what you don't like about the article serms to be that, well, you don't like the article.

The piece is full of whataboutery and of-its-timery. Opinion without any supporting example. We get it, you don't like it.

It lionises Britain as heroic in the abolition of slavery with regard to the time when colonialism was at its height and at its worst. Yes, but they *did* abolish slavery when colonialism was at its height. That is what the article is about. Should they be vilified for it? Praise seems not inappropriate.

It attempts to divert responsibility from the country to the major religions. Well, the religions *were* often more influential than any individual nation.

Anyway. Thank you for taking the time to detail your arguments. It was just nice to see reportage admitting that white Europeans did not invent slavery, and that many of the Africans brought to the new world were purchased, already enslaved.