[xepriot]

Why do you perform this “well, they have a reason to be upset” ritualistic apologia before you condemn racist murder and the rhetoric that provokes it?

[zamalek]

Everyone has a range of reasons to have many emotions and beliefs. It doesn't mean that we roll over and adopt those emotions and beliefs.

Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved. Sugarcoating it for us fragile white people does no good.

[merman]

If you contort your thinking enough, 1920s Germans suffered miserably and unfairly and we could never comprehend their suffering, us being so fragile. How can we judge them for what they did later?

[zamalek]

At what point did I say that they are beyond judgment? Germany is still paying for reparations, after all.

[lockhouse]

> Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved

Yes, mostly by fellow Africans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

[zamalek]

Which excuses the white man doing it?

[lockhouse]

I never said it did.

I just wanted to point out that the popular belief that white Europeans created African slavery out of thin air and hunted them down like animals to sell is false.