America is genocidal, sure, but so is every single other society in the history of civilization. America is exceptional because of the technology and the art it contributed to genocide, which is the goal of every civiliztion, remember. Pointing out the difference in scale of US atrocities just prevents us working together for greater justice.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/6343679 https://hexbear.net/comment/4329347

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    7 months ago

    I don’t particularly remember making the claim that the US was unique in its use of chattel slavery, though your own source admits

    While only 300,000 arrived in the U.S. directly, more came to the present-day U.S. via the intra-American slave trade

    And the numbers here are skewed by the US being counted separately from Britain while Portuguese colonies count for Portugal, to say nothing of the fact that most African diaspora slaves in the 13 colonies/US were born there, over 10 million, far more than what Portugal has in your chart.

    You’re doing Holocaust-denial-level dogshit apologetics for your precious little white supremacy capital.

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      You are clearly not reading my comments. There’s no denial here.

      Also: no antagonism coming from me.

      Pure civility.

      And hope for a better future.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        7 months ago

        Dude, your last comment was 5 words.

        Pure civility

        Lmao I don’t give a shit how polite you are while whitewashing America’s abuse of black people.

            • 🔻Sleepless One🔻@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              11·
              7 months ago

              Even if we granted Portugal did more slavery, Portugal isn’t the world hegemon doing more than any other nation to maintain imperialism for the past 80ish years.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                9·
                7 months ago

                You are such a fucking idiot, that’s not what the page says. The page documents how many slaves were trafficked in the transatlantic slave trade based on the flag of the ship carrying them (which incidentally means the 13 colonies are counted under Britain). The vast, vast majority of slaves in the US were not brought there from Africa but born on US soil, as I already said. You are demonstrating not just your idiocy but your sniveling insincerity when you say “I didn’t say anything like that” despite simultaneously arguing for that point, even after I explained that it was false and your source has no bearing on that fact.

                Delete your account.