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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months agoNo, I’m just pointing out that “they practiced slavery” isn’t an argument you can just throw at any race or nationality in particular without inflicting massive self-damage.
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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months agoNo, I’m just pointing out that “they practiced slavery” isn’t an argument you can just throw at any race or nationality in particular without inflicting massive self-damage.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
haha no. such a huge claim requires substantial evidence - and you left yourself an easy out. Many cultures practiced slavery, true. Most cultures? Maybe an argument could be made. All?
ALL?
That requires substantial evidence there’s absolutely nothing supporting it.
Now I get it, the easiest way to debase your enemy’s righteousness is to drag them down to your level. But you don’t get this one shitbag. Slavery isn’t universal. You just want it to be so it makes you feel better about your premise.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Good thing others already did the work for me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
Since you’re the one making the claim that not all cultures have a history of it, I’ll leave it to you to find me a single counterexample of a culture that never practiced it. But even if that should exist, I think there’s certainly overwhelming evidence that it was extremely widespread and common practice on every single continent at some point in history.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s not how extraordinary claims work. Nothing in that article says ‘all cultures’ it just lists the cultures that are known to have.
Cute though, nice try.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Okay, I change my claim to “almost all cultures”. I think there’s enough evidence here to support that.
Happy now?