re: #25 EPR-radar

I was speaking specifically about “blacks being better off under slavery”. There are many other manifestations of racism for which ignorance is a perfectly reasonable explanation.

There’s a lot of dark stuff to unpack in the “better off under slavery” thing.

Today it occurred to me that it’s not just about race as justification for slavery, but also about denying all the abuses inherent in the system.

The arbitrary physical violence?

The rapes, and the subsequent chattelage of one’s own children?

The police state invested with the ability to surveil suspected abolitionists, to confiscate and destroy all printed/written abolitionist materials, and detain any suspected sympathizer? The death penalty for abolitionists,,,and/or the collaboration of legal authorities in lynching or extralegal murders?

All of this is handwaved. It’s exaggeration, lies, propaganda.