[legostormtroopr]

> walking towards slavery

Modern slavery is a massive problem. There are more slaves today than there were at the peak of slavery in the United States.

It is a strange side effect of US-exceptionalism that projects a shameful-pride that US slavery was the biggest and the worst slavery and they are the heroes for ending slavery, when none of these are remotely true.

[silisili]

What's perhaps worse - most Americans don't even know it exists. I didn't until a foreign person with experience with it opened my eyes to it, and I did more research. Everyone I happen to tell had no idea prior...

Really heartbreaking stuff.

[TrnsltLife]

Maybe to cover over the fact that the Civil War was a total breach of the Constitution and the rights of the independent states who had freely joined a compact and felt they should be able to leave.