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Huruma;3139633 said:Equivalent or worse atrocities occur every day.
Huruma;3139633 said:Equivalent or worse atrocities occur every day.
fiat_money;3139733 said:Are you referring to chattel slavery everywhere at any point in point in time, the chattel slavery of the entire transatlantic slave trade, the chattel slavery in all of North America from the transatlantic slave trade, the chattel slavery in the North American British colonies followed by the Unites States from the transatlantic slave trade, or just the chattel slavery in the United States from the transatlantic slave trade?
judahxulu;3139731 said:Name it nigga. And "every day" doesn't encompass it. How bout every day for 400 years to start.
But anyway name these equivalent or worse atrocities.
Huruma;3139803 said:Respectfully, Judah, I can't believe that you seriously think that African slaves in the West are the only people throughout history to have been brutally abused and victimized to the extent that they were. Political prisoners in North Korea are severely tortured in prison camps and detention centers, they're punished for not working fast enough or forgetting the lyrics to patriotic songs, this punishment includes withholding food, beatings, being forced to sit in a single spot for long periods of time etc. I remember reading a few years ago about Congolese rebels who killed a woman's baby ( boiled the child alive), and ate it right in front of her. In Kosovo, Darfur, Rwanda and many other war torn (previously or currently) countries it's never been uncommon for soldiers or rebels to rape women, randomly massacre civilians, torture dissenters etc. I remember reading of British officials in colonial Kenya who would mutilate people alive for being suspected Mau mau sympathizers and Blacks in the Congo who were forced to work on rubber plantations and mutilated or beaten for not working fast enough. Have you seen pictures of starving Jewish concentration camp prisoners? These people were gassed in the shower, burned alive, even buried alive.
80% of the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day, people everywhere suffer in ways that we will probably never understand. Starvation, disease, war and genocide, unusual genetic disorders, it's honestly terrifying how bad things can get.
Huruma;3139803 said:Respectfully, Judah, I can't believe that you seriously think that African slaves in the West are the only people throughout history to have been brutally abused and victimized to the extent that they were. Political prisoners in North Korea are severely tortured in prison camps and detention centers, they're punished for not working fast enough or forgetting the lyrics to patriotic songs, this punishment includes withholding food, beatings, being forced to sit in a single spot for long periods of time etc. I remember reading a few years ago about Congolese rebels who killed a woman's baby ( boiled the child alive), and ate it right in front of her. In Kosovo, Darfur, Rwanda and many other war torn (previously or currently) countries it's never been uncommon for soldiers or rebels to rape women, randomly massacre civilians, torture dissenters etc. I remember reading of British officials in colonial Kenya who would mutilate people alive for being suspected Mau mau sympathizers and Blacks in the Congo who were forced to work on rubber plantations and mutilated or beaten for not working fast enough. Have you seen pictures of starving Jewish concentration camp prisoners? These people were gassed in the shower, burned alive, even buried alive.
80% of the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day, people everywhere suffer in ways that we will probably never understand. Starvation, disease, war and genocide, unusual genetic disorders, it's honestly terrifying how bad things can get.
judahxulu;3139962 said:None of these things have endured for a 400 year duration and those atrocities you have listed in Africa are a result of colonization of Africa which would not have been possible without chattel slavery.
Yeah, i get it and I respect and empathize with the struggles of others- but who has had to endure it for 400+ uninterrupted years????
That's option number two then.judahxulu;3139784 said:LOL. The chattel slavery that consisted of Europeans taking Africans from Africa into Europe and the "New World" as captives. Plus, all the shit that trickled down from that.
fiat_money;3140021 said:That's option number two then.
I'd say the European colonialism in Africa was/is easily worse.
The slaves of the transatlantic slave trade were mainly taken from Sub-Saharan west Africa, while European colonialism pretty much carved up all of Africa and parts of Asia; so parts where no slaves were taken en masse from were still colonized by Europeans.judahxulu;3140078 said:it goes hand in hand. colonialism could not have existed to the extent that it did without chattel slavery.
fiat_money;3140233 said:The slaves of the transatlantic slave trade were mainly taken from Sub-Saharan west Africa, while European colonialism pretty much carved up all of Africa and parts of Asia; so parts where no slaves were taken en masse from were still colonized by Europeans.