chemical_cutthroat comments on Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"We forge the chains we wear in life." -some white person.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

That statement isn't about slavery, or labor, it's about emotional bondage.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The statement is about whatever the last person to crotchet it on a pillow believed it to be.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It's a quote from Dickens, A Christmas Carol. It's about our sins binding us to misery or torment.

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