It’s like when people want to bring up Irish indentured servitude. There’s a conversation to be had about that and what the Irish went through. But there is no real reason to compare and conflate it to chattel slavery and therefore diluting the horrors of chattel slavery and the impact it had on the world.

I didn’t even know you could decuple down but he’s doing it. He’s taking “Well, actually” into a whole new dimension.

Yeah, no, it’s way beyond just “we cranked it up to 11"

It was out of the greys and had many stars when I responded. Once trolls are out, I sometimes can’t help responding.

What you are trying to do is to equate something like indentured servitude to the horrors of the slavery invented by Europeans. There’s no turning it up to eleven. One system was used to pay off debts and such the other equated humans to chattel and lesser beings.

Oh hell, did anyone else have “hey guys blacks had slaves too” on their Missing the Point bingo card or did I just win this thing?

I think saying “we cranked it up to 11" is a bit of an understatement though. That whole cranking is fundamental to what separated American slavery from every other form that existed globally beforehand.

American slavery was noticeably different than the slavery practiced throughout history. Yes, Africans sold other Africans into slavery at the hands of Europeans...but they had no idea the kind of slavery they were selling them into.

Damn. Eight years Three months of Republicans crafting a comprehensive and fair healthcare bill down the tube.

because they were unable to publicly face up to the fact that Obamacare actually follows a conservative model and you can’t really get more conservative and still provide people with affordable health care plans

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Oh, this is rich!

I don’t think you’re coming off the way you think you do in this exchange.

Ok. So what you not gon do is sit here and talk shit about roo. She is literally the nicest person. I know her . We email back and forth. She’s been a mentor to me ( career wise), a complete internet stranger, who she did not have to help but took time to, because she wants black girls to win. We have almost met in…

“Great evening with President @EmmanuelMacron & Mrs. Macron. Went to Eiffel Tower for dinner. Relationship with France stronger than ever.”

Mr. Magoo would be a more competent president.

There is actually an entire subreddit dedicated to saving Brendan Frasier’s career, believe it or not.

He is a national treasure and I will fight anyone on this site who deems otherwise.

Wait. Wait. Who. What. Why are people hating Brendan Fraser?

Is that just romaine he’s eating?