• zbyte64
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    5 days ago

    And there were Roman slaves that enjoyed a higher standard of living relative to the global norm. We have literal white supremacists argue that chattel slavery was good actually because the standard of living blacks experience now is higher than what they would have if we left them alone.

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      5 days ago

      This has nothing to do with the point I’m making. You are really going out of your way to drag racism and slavery into this argument. There must be a language barrier or something.

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        The Romans enslaved their own (and other modern day “whites”) so racism isn’t required to make the analogy.