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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Zzzzzzzzzzzz. You're bizarrely defending plantations in order to "own the libs." Your form of stupid hurts so bad that your dead relatives can feel it. Congrats, Lord of House Edgelord.

You're pointing out no hypocrisy. We are adult enough to recognize that there are shades of grey when it comes to universities vs. plantations and there involvement in the slave trade. In fact, not an insignificant number of elite Southern families today have wealth due to their ancestors' investments in slavery.

But sure, go party at a plantation and post it to IG. None of us are jealous of your moral relativism. And none of us feel bad for attending universities, some of which were tainted by funding from the slave trade. American universities have done more for our national security, economic wealth, and pushing the expansion of civil rights than plantations ever did. Your black-white form of thinking is boring, trite, and unpersuasive. Maybe you should have spent more time in a university? [/quote]

This is the best response you can come up with?  You, obviously, didn't read the Brown University report and fail to understand just how complicit, as slave owners and facilitators of slavery, universities are.  Continue on in your willful ignorance and virtue signaling.

You also shouldn't use words like "purity tests" and "moral relativism" unless understand what they mean and can use them correctly. [/quote]

Your problem is that you want everyone to accept your anti-virtue signaling. Not gonna happen. It's not "virtue signaling" for people to state they feel uncomfortable partying it up at a plantation. It's creepy, creepy, creepy. There's many of us in this thread with this position.

I've read the report issued by Georgetown on their connection to slavery. I still stand by my comment that universities have done more to expand economic outcomes and social rights of all Americans than plantations. You have every right to not attend those universities, see yourself out the door. [/quote]

You're effectively justifying a lesser evil over a greater evil but I suppose you're still missing the point, it's still heavily tinged by the evil. Was there an upside to the American plantation system? Well, the cheap cotton produced by the plantations in the decades before the Civil War flooded both America and the world with drastically cheaper textiles and that was a major improvement over textiles of previous eras, which were much more expensive that poor people literally lived in rags. So you can say the typical plantation worked towards greatly improving the quality of life for millions outside the South and the world (it was very much part of the larger industrial revolution era). That, in a way, can be said to be more valuable to the improving the overall human condition than most academic research that has ever come out of Georgetown. Just one perspective, of course.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson also did more for this country than just about anyone else, they were the founding fathers and created a system of government that still binds us together as Americans, and they were planters and the wealth of their plantations allowed them to flourish as political leaders.

Where does one draw the line? Are Washington and Jefferson evil men? They were not. And that's the truth, unfortunate or not. Most planters and slave owners were not evil or inherently bad people. History is muddled and complicated. And everything is interlinked. [/quote]

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