Another statue was taken down... this time forcibly

[Red Spy]

slaves literally built the united states though

until 1865

[Ad Bot]

[Maxwell.]

until 1865

90 years after its inception is a fair amount of time

[Red Spy]

90 years after its inception is a fair amount of time

152 years of economic growth after that is more important

[Deus Ex]

That would be incredibly lame and uncool

So is defacing public/private property jackass

[Maxwell.]

152 years of economic growth after that is more important

I get that you're trying to discredit what the slaves initially did for your country and what they dealt with but economic growth doesn't outweigh it

also my mistake, you can add about 200 years before you got independence as well

[Red Spy]

I get that you're trying to discredit what the slaves initially did for your country and what they dealt with but economic growth doesn't outweigh it

you mean the slavery that ended 8 generations ago

[Kearn]

I get that you're trying to discredit what the slaves initially did for your country and what they dealt with but economic growth doesn't outweigh it

also my mistake, you can add about 200 years before you got independence as well

you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?

[Nonnel]

so the solution to this perceived ill is to destroy statues 4 generations old instead of erecting new ones?

152 years of economic growth after that is more important

what the forget

[Drydess]

you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?

including indentured servants, you mean

[Kearn]

including indentured servants, you mean

call them what you will,

Hundreds of thousands of white slaves were kidnapped and brought to America; their middle-passage death rates were comparable to those of black slaves; they were sold at auction and traded for livestock, they were routinely beaten—sometimes to death—and an estimated one half of them died before gaining freedom. It's possible that more whites came to America against their will than blacks. Historians from both ends of the political spectrum say that white slaves were treated worse than black slaves.

[Red Spy]

what the forget

from the whole "slavery but america" comment it sounded like he was talking about economics

[LeisureSuit912]

you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?

Oh boy

[Nonnel]

call them what you will,

i assume you're against the prison industrial complex, too? prison labor is pretty much the equivalent of indentured servantry.

[Maxwell.]

you mean the slavery that ended 8 generations ago

so was the civil war, does that mean we should discredit it

you realize the overwhelming majority of slaves during the first 200 years were white, right?

I love how you hopped on that point despite me not even mentioning anything about them being black or white there

[Drydess]

call them what you will,

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