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Be more Mr Rogers (lazysoci.al)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't get it twisted. There were plenty of people who were against slavery but still deeply racist. There was a big movement among abolitionists to send all the black folks back to Africa. That's how Liberia was founded.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That's was not a terrible idea for the time. It backfired horrendously and the n US ignored the hell out of it l. Honestly, it was pretty much the history of Isreal

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it was a terrible idea because it was just more colonization. Just like Israel it's not like Liberia was just empty. There were more than enough resources for integration, they were just unevenly distributed, history of capitalism blah blah.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    They pretty much believed in fucking magic at the time. There was more evidence that the two races were incompatible then there was a lot of other stupid things believed back then. Plus if you are going to fuck someone over it might as well be someone not in your country then someone who is. I guess. Still not good though.

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