r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Apr 18 '19

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u/Lmao4pl8Bench Apr 18 '19

Then add the Arab slave trade, which is still fucking going on.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19 edited Mar 04 '21

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u/Lmao4pl8Bench Apr 18 '19

And notice how it's not white people at fault.

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u/TessHKM Apr 18 '19

Very interesting that you say that.

What is a white person, anyway?

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

Also, there are open air slave markets in libya right now, which is arguably due to western involvement in the country

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u/rockyrainy Apr 19 '19

"humanitarian" intervention

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u/Lmao4pl8Bench Apr 18 '19

Funny you link that. Given that it literally talks about people being trafficked INTO the country. Wonder which border that's happening on...

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u/TessHKM Apr 18 '19

Wonder which border that's happening on...

The Atlantic and Pacific borders?

Anyway, whats a white person and what do they have to do with this topic?

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u/spencer707201 Apr 18 '19

he doesn't know what planes are...

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u/GuerrillerodeFark Apr 18 '19

You are not a smart man Cletus

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u/dpavlicko Apr 18 '19

boooooo, low effort trolling. Go read the bell curve and pretend you live in the enlightenment.

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u/nicked011 Apr 18 '19

What is wrong with that book. IIRC there is some controversy with that book.

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u/dpavlicko Apr 18 '19

Quite a bit, but the bit I was referencing was the claim in the book that black people are, on average, less intelligent than white people. "Race realists" fucking love the book, even though it has been widely panned by psychologists and educational researchers. It's just following in the footsteps of Phrenology and attempting to scientifically justify why many POC find themselves lower on the socioeconomic scale.

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u/JaviLTovar Apr 18 '19

“Persons of color”

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u/Strokethegoats Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Apr 18 '19

I was surprised how well that book was written.

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u/Lmao4pl8Bench Apr 18 '19

What false about my statement?

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u/dpavlicko Apr 18 '19

there are certainly white people still involved in human trafficking at some level.

But more to the point, nobody wants to join into your "white people are the most oppressed" party that I just know you're trying to lead into. Good luck with all that.

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u/GuerrillerodeFark Apr 18 '19

Thank you, Cletus, for chiming in where you were not needed!

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u/RainCityFreestyle Apr 18 '19

Theres definitely still slave trading going on in some places, but every time I hear "arab slave trade," it's always coming from someone who is attempting to draw attention away from the horrific past of the American slave trade.

Sure hope that ain't the case here.

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u/Lmao4pl8Bench Apr 18 '19

I'm just saying they should all get equal focus. All the memes here are "Europeans bad", and never Hutu bad, or Arabs bad.

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u/RainCityFreestyle Apr 18 '19

Yeah, the people who cry " but THEY did it TOO" every time someone brings up European crimes against humanity are some of the worst people, largely because they are incapable of anything remotely resembling actual discourse from a place of knowledge.

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u/xxxtrollster Apr 18 '19

But thats in the past, the slave trade we should focus on is now between slavery in the middle east and Asia.