Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "This Thomas Lockley Situation Is Insane" video.

@PeregrinTintenfish It's not scholarly. That's the problem. It's little more than would go into any fictional book written. Let's say you're writing a mystery, and you want it to be about Jack the Ripper. Lots of mystery and detective novels use him as the villain. You're going to include facts, so you have to research it. That doesn't make your mystery novel a scholarly work. Either you don't know how much research is required in any fictional book with a real-world setting, or you're intentionally being dishonest. It was not listed under fiction in the US, which he sets. Generally speaking, fictional works aren't cited in Britannica. Edit: He "got in over his head" by his own hands. It wasn't accidentally. He put himself in places he knew he didn't belong.
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The last point is very damning. That's zero record of that. It wasn't Japan. As per most trade, it began in continent and spread. I find it really weird this need to point to someone to blame when there was other slave trading occurring as well and had been for a lot of history. Academia isn't the place to point fingers. It should be strictly unemotional facts. Edit: It spread to the Middle East, then went overseas. Mainly due to availability and the willingness of the people to participate. It was a lot easier than attacking ships and kidnapping.
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@sentinel-p5k How could anyone look around Japan and believe they engaged in the African slave trade to any large degree? I mean, unless they did like the middle east did which I don't see happening. They absolutely had slavery, but the slave trade, no.
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