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by scsilver 1944 days ago
Go ahead, bring in the Arab slave trade, im pretty disgusted by that aswell, but the topic is the british.

And how kind of the British, like any major power with an advancing economy, seem to start focusing on human right just about the time slavery is offering more of an advantage to their adversaries. (But I'm not going to complain about that progress).

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The topic is always British, European, or American. That's why it's valid to bring up other similar historical wrongs in this discussion without dismissing it as whataboutism. The "strange" focus on only the historical wrongs of a few particular groups of people impeaches the discussion of this sort of topic due to the obvious implicit bias that selects which groups should be held accountable.