"Slavery is so over! Let's move on!"

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Obligatory “there are more slaves in the world now than ever before”

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• brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pear Harbor

  Never forgor

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  • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rember Almo

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• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kinda like asking when someone is going to stop focusing on the bone sticking out of thier leg and start focusing on walking.

  If you don’t set the bone, it can’t heal. It’s actually pretty important. It certainly is a counter-example to the idea that “time heals all wounds”.

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• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like they also forget all the other stuff too when it’s convenient for them

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We haven’t even ended slavery. The US has the largest prison population in the world for a reason.

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• Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe banning slavery would be a good first step….

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  • FranzKnut@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But then the heroes at the Alamo died in vain!!1 (That’s what Texan independence truly was all about, right?)

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• wagesj45@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As soon as we fix all the problems that stem from it, we can shut up about it. Until then… 🤷

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Six Flags Over Slavery just moved it into the prisons and offshore. Slavery is most certainly not over.

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• FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Have to admit, I’ve completely forgotten about Pear Harbor.

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  • StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was a competitor for Apple but got bought and dismantled.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was when the USA surrendered to dis pear.

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    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Shoutout to da pear

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It was the Boston Tea Party’s lesser, ill-conceived cousin.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s when the Japanese sank nearly all of the US’s pears.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pears of what?

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    • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah, that’s why pear-based weaponry played such a small role in World War II?

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• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean yeah, I agree. Remembering the past is important, but only in so far as it affects the currently and future living people.

  So let’s talk about how institutionalised racism and power structures that started from slavery are still negatively affecting a lot of people while favouring some others.

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  • Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “not like that”

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