Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "We live under dictatorship, it's official now" video.
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@istvanglock7445 It is whataboutism, I hear it a lot, and it's not about learning the history of slavery, it's about learning history. Children growing up in the US need to be thoroughly educated about the origin of their country, the enslavement of Africans forcibly transported across the ocean for that very purpose, and the racial superiority theories specially constructed to justify this practice, which sadly have a lot of traction to this day. Obfuscating the foundations of today's racial inequality makes it much harder to dismantle it. It is crucial for all US children to know that the descendants of the survivors are still in large part disadvantaged and discriminated against, and often actively victimised, as a direct consequence of these events and the beliefs which originated from them. "Naah-na-na-na-naah, look at the Ottomans"really, really won't do.
By all means do teach US children about slavery in other parts of the world at other times in history. Just remember to point out that this was not about "whites also getting enslaved" but about the Transatlantic slave trade being one of few, if not the only, to see people of one race enslaved by people of another, who came up with a whole theory of racial superiority to justify profiting from such an abhorrent practice. It was also one of the most recent and egregious occurrences in modern history, though I think Brazil ended slavery a decade or two after the US, and IS famously enslaved Yazidis as part of their genocidal campaign against them.
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