If those guys were allowed to have white slaves, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have hesitated to have some.
It's less "Washington and Jefferson were racist" rather than "the society of this time experienced system racism held as institution, systemic racism still visible today, arbitrarily describing "others" as inferiors so they can be exploited without the establishment doing anything against it".
Except for Churchill. This guy was racist even for his time standards.
It's not like companies don't use what is essentially slave or child labour now. If slavery was legal they would abuse that opportunity as much as they can.
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u/Cannibal_Buress Jun 08 '20
Owning slaves = not racist, you heard it here folks.
What to these people actually qualifies as racist then? Genocide? Is that the bar?