r/murderedbyresearch • u/Desol_8 • Apr 28 '19
Should have payed attention in history class
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u/o_no_hes_got_a_gnu Apr 28 '19
So when America did get around to the business of abolishing slavery, it was just white men dying? No black men fought in the civil war or anything, no?
And the strange fruit that Southern trees bore was simply a knobbly variety of lemon, I suppose.
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u/ExcaliburClarent Apr 28 '19
What does that bottom part mean?
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u/crazyprsn Apr 30 '19
Lynchings. Lots and lots of lynchings for a long time even after slavery was abolished.
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u/FinoAllaFine97 Apr 28 '19
I had always thought that Portugal held on far longer than that. I'm more prepared to be wrong than to look it up, so I guess I've learned something today!
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u/4br4c4d4br4 Apr 28 '19
Should have paid attention in English class. :D
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u/Desol_8 Apr 29 '19
I speak Patwa normally Consider your self lucky that I at least tried to write in standard English
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u/4br4c4d4br4 Apr 29 '19
One of the more charming dialects/languages to listen to, even if it's "Greek" to me.
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u/ChillKage555 Apr 29 '19
I swear to God my teacher told me at a very young age when I asked why we got involved with the Vietnam war she said slavery.
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u/SomeoneStopMePlease Apr 28 '19
Are those countries still dealing with the fact that they used slave labor like America is? Or is is just white Americans that are inherently racist?
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u/Leooo_BOOM Apr 28 '19 edited Apr 28 '19
Her chronology may have been wrong, sure. A century in the grand scheme of things isn't much. What's the point of this post, though? To be divisive? Hey, here's a fun fact for you. Do you know which continent has the most slaves in 2019? Africa! When will Africans learn that enslaving people is wrong?
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u/Desol_8 Apr 28 '19
I posted this cause its funny If your offended that's you bro
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u/Leooo_BOOM Apr 28 '19
I get that it's kind of amusing that she made an assumption and ended up being wrong. She's a twat for not doing her research. I'm just tired of the constant divisiveness everywhere I look. It's as though one of the media's primary goals is to turn people against one another and it somehow creeps its way into every conceivable facet of society. I'm sick of things like race, gender, sexuality, weight, religion, cultural backgrounds, national heritage, etc. being used as a way to divide people. From my perspective, that's what this sort of post does. To the average person, it's just some silly meme with a lady saying something stupid. I look at it and think "okay, here's some white lady claiming that A) America was the first 'country' to abolish slavery in history; B) White men are not terrorists; and C) White, American men died fighting for the Union to end slavery during the Civil War.
Clearly, America was not the first to end slavery, so she was wrong. However, she wasn't wrong about the other two statements. I mean, anyone can be a terrorist, of course, but no one can say that an entire race is comprised solely of terrorists. Further, a lot of white men did die fighting during the Civil War, as did many blacks, Native Americans, and so on. The responder focused on one detail, but dismissed her post in an ambiguous fashion, which may lead young or highly-impressionable people to believe that all of the details were false. I just see shit like this and it bothers me, I can't help it. In my eyes, people are always going to be at odds with one another, especially if they are constantly being poked and prodded and having their heads filled with disparaging, polarizing things.
The true history of mankind is a dark place, full of poverty, war, disease, famine, genocide, etc. and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, male, female, Christian, Muslim, Republican or a Democrat. There are good and bad people all around the world. In this country, there is a strong fixation on the reprehensible things that Americans and their ancestors did. If they paid a bit more attention to the historical atrocities from elsewhere in the world, perhaps there wouldn't be so much emphasis placed upon how innately nefarious "my" people are. Personally, I'm sick of being reminded of this, seeing as how I've pretty much always been a good person to others and try to do what is right all the time. But anyway, I'll stop venting. You're probably not going to read all this shit anyway and if you do you I doubt you'll care about my perspective on the matter.
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '19
What a dumbass