rightwinger
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Of course I am........
Do you believe I endorse slavery??
I'm not going to paint every slaveholder as "evil."
Maybe you should try looking at the issue from their perspective...
Things were different back then... It was a different era and judging them with present ethics would be absolutely wrong..
It's just that you go into a rage over any perceived infringement on your own liberty and yet, write off slavery with a "Slave owners were basically nice guys"
Yeah well I do my best to try and understand ideas instead of making knee-jerk reactions.
As a history buff it would be wrong to assert that every slave owner was bad...
Using that logic every pet owner is a brutal nut, when as we all know most people love their pets.
Now slaves weren't pets, however it's a good analogy as far as treatment is concerned.
Just because someone was a slave doesn't mean they were abused or treated harshly..
I mean back then the word "******" or "negro" was not used as an ad hominem or ad lib, it was used as a proper noun...
If I said: "go get the ****** (or negro) some water" today they would call that language racist - However that language would have no negative implications 100 years ago.
I suppose my point is that things were different back then and slave owners were not racist or necessarily bad people just because they owned a slave.
Remember slaves were property - not to mention not every southern slave owner agreed that a person could be property in the first place. However they were still property.
Of course its wrong and it goes against every liberal idea I possess today, however that doesn't mean I'm wrong for attempting to understand that era, and what their feelings on idea were...
Your posts make the baby Jesus cry