▲ 775 ▼ Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal' (www.comicsands.com) submitted 3 years ago by whiskeypickle@lemmy.ml to c/politics@lemmy.world 191 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 44 points 3 years ago (2 children) Pretty fuckin' stupid for that video to say that the US began the conversation on ending slavery when the Haitian revolution began in 1802. You know, among all of the other fuckin' stupid things in that video. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 29 points 3 years ago It was famously already a well established argument by the time of the drafting of the US constitution. The southern states were deathly afraid their ability to keep slaves would be taken away, which was basically the entire driving motivation behind almost everything they did. permalink fedilink source parent [–] whiskeypickle@lemmy.ml [S] 9 points 3 years ago facts obviously don’t matter to these people permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 29 points 3 years ago It was famously already a well established argument by the time of the drafting of the US constitution. The southern states were deathly afraid their ability to keep slaves would be taken away, which was basically the entire driving motivation behind almost everything they did. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whiskeypickle@lemmy.ml [S] 9 points 3 years ago facts obviously don’t matter to these people permalink fedilink source parent