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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "no one is innocent" argument fails miserably.  Some bank insuring slaves is not the same as whipping them and putting them in chains.  That's like saying Coca Cola was guilty for imprisoning Nelson Mandela, because they sold soda in South Africa.[/quote]

No one said it was the same as beating and chaining but what fails is your ignoring facts. And your attempt at the comparison...failure as well. If a bank is loaning money for the purchase of slaves, holding slaves as collateral and financed the expansion of slave plantations that is an active participation by facilitation.

Let's say there is a slave owner that doesn't beat or kill his slaves. But, he sells one of his slaves to someone that he knows full well does and that slave dies. No intelligent person is going to say he killed that slave but no intelligent person is going to completely absolve the first owner either.

Oh...btw...companies that were selling goods and services in Apartheid South Africa, along with universities such as Columbia who had investments there, came under heavy fire for doing so. Coca Cola even divested itself of the operations there selling to black investors. Why? Because continuing to do business with South Africa was seen as passive support and allowed them to continue with what they were doing. Divestiture was a big factor in the end of Apartheid.

What would have happened if the North cut off support? What if they hadn't continued buying cotton and running their sweatshops? Maybe nothing. But maybe it would have helped to end slavery. We'll never know because they didn't.[/quote]

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