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Originally Posted by savannah
and because i dont demonize it doesnt mean i'm an ignorant backwoods hillbilly
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Actually it does to most civilized people. The fact that you fail to understand why so many people here have such an issue with slavery and racism in the South just shows how little you understand about American and, to be more specific, Southern, history.
I don't hold slavery against any Southerners, there's enough to complain about the South for already, but my problem with this sort of romantic "Oh, pre-war South wasn't so bad...if you were white hehe" ideal is almost sad.
Also, as for the fact that lots of other societies had slaves, I wouldn't have even cared about savannah's comment if she hadn't gone out of her way to make it known that she would have wanted to be a slave owner, or if she hadn't continued to basically defend slavery. Not to mention the fact that, as far as I'm aware, no other society in modern history actively continued to oppress their slaves on the basis of racism for 100 years after slavery had been abolished.