C_Clayton_Jones
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^^^ And this ignorant, moronic post is yet another example of the idiocy that there was some ‘benefit’ to slavery: rightist revisionist history concerning the ‘confederacy’ and the Civil War – that perhaps slavery ‘wasn’t so bad’ and that slave owners were somehow ‘justified’ to own slaves.Oh. You mean like Hebrews? Native Americans? Irish folks? Asians?Teacher asks 8th-grade students to list positives of slavery
Let's see...
1. Free labor.
2. The cotton industry was booming.
3. As the great Cliven Bundy once said, it "gave them something to do".
4. 12 Years A Slave, which was a great movie, never would have been made.
Can you think of any more?
The school is just one more PC Idiocracy. EVERYTHING has a + and a - side to it, even slavery, that is the nature of the universe, otherwise there never would have been slaves! It was a lesson in critical thinking, thinking outside the box, not justification of slavery, but now thanks to fear of PC, these kids will lose a valuable lesson in looking at something very bad and seeing that even such things have their positive aspects. The Chinese call it yin and yang, but in the Dumbed Down States of America, our poor kids are not allowed to think and learn freely, being told by their "school" that you are only allowed to believe that things like slavery, war, old age, illness and even death are all bad with nothing good or positive to ever be gleaned, taken or learned from them.
Only a white person in delusional denial thinks that there was anything positive about slavery. Especially in a nation whose credo reads “All men are created equal”, such conclusions would invite the enslavement of those privileged and in power presently. Maybe your opinion would be different if your ancestors and their progeny had been slaves.
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Hebrews were slaves thousands of years ago in Egypt, Native Americans were never slaves,
Pretty much every other advanced nation had abolished slavery decades before our Civil War.People who constantly pound on about how bad and evil white folks in America were for keeping slaves generally ignore the fact that slavery's been around throughout mankind in all parts of the world. That's just the way man rolled for centuries; it was a natural part of life and not looked at as morally wrong or anything. Not saying it was right or endorsing it. That's just the way it was and it was handed down through generations across cultures, continents, etc.The question, of itself, is not offensive. On the contrary, education should constructively challenge the developing intellect of students.
The positives of slavery did not go to the slaves, for example, but to the owners and their economic system. A student could and should have been able to see that, at least. Ultimately, the question could have led to the answer, "There were no positives for the victims of this practice".
They should also have learned about the context, that until relatively soon before the war to preserve the Union, slavery was common in the world and almost all cultures. Whites were not evil for having black slaves, just unenlightened.
Nuance seems less and less present in American social debate. Everything has to be 'good' or 'bad', and all according to the current mode and definition.
And they abolished slavery peacefully.
It's a pretty wretched indictment on the South they were one of the few places in the world that would fight to the bloody death one of the worst wars in history to preserve human bondage.
, ever slaves in America. Or anywhere else for that matter. Maybe you’re the one who needs to go to school to learn the truth of slavery. Ignorance is a deal killer in these forums.
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You do realize that the North attacked the South, right?