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by woodpanel 999 days ago
> and nobody cared about it

you see, this is the gift of American progressive cultural imperialism.

Suddenly, the only historiography that can exist in the world is that of American trustafarians who try to minimize their shame of being born wealthy heirs of the slave-owner class by spreading the shame on white immigrants that arrived way after slavery got disbanded.

And once you set the precedence that you can at will shame innocent people - the majority of white Americans - into obedience even though it’s technically impossible that their ancestors had anything to do with slavery… well then why stop at Americans at all?

Now its every European country and culture that has to subvert itself to the viewpoint of Ivy league grads.

Brownfacing, Blackfacing, minstrelshows, Kuklux you name it - it doesn’t matter what Poles could possibly have to do with it, or Germans or Swedes - you are all guilty by being born white.

God bless America.

2 comments

Please don't add nationalistic flamewar hell on top of ideological flamewar hell. It's highly destructive of what this site is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I'd say at least some Europeans have their own guilt to deal with, if we're saying the sins of the parents should be visited on the children... Not like the US has a monopoly on terrible history
> if we're saying the sins of the parents should be visited on the children

I’d say this is the binary option we routinely fail to make the right choice.

> renaming master branches/HDDs to main because of rAciSm

Sticking to OP‘s topic its just ridiculous to have such a discussion in Europe because we are supposedly to feel guilty about what other people did to African Americans.

Lest for the majority of US slaves well into the 1700s were European catholics, or that much of European borders and coasts were routinely raided in the hunt for white slaves (Cornwall, Ireland, Russia…)

As a Brit at least, the empire was doing very well out of the slave trade at some point even if there were no slaves in UK (which iirc there were some depending how the law on bringing bringing in slaves stood at the point), so I don't think we can disclaim responsibility like that. Whether we should feel personally guilty for something that happened before anyone now living was born is a different issue, but I think we should acknowledge it happened
As a brit I didn't know cornwall + ireland were raided for slaves into the 1700s (earlier, with viking Circa 1000 yes, but not after). Could you provide some solid links please? TIA
This. Thanks.

Also for the other regions that were routinely raided in the hunt for white slaves:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empir...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_...