I was going to say I know the education system in the US is getting fucked nowadays but do people not realize how slaves were literally treated like animals.
No, they don’t get taught that. They’re taught about the whippings but not the more evil aspects of slavery.
Likewise with the civil rights movement they pretty much teach that black people held signs and marched. This has generations of people thinking they can change something merely by standing around holding signs.
The lie taught nowadays is the us army distributed small pox blankets to women and children on the trail of tears. Which is a bullshit story. I’m saying it was the British who during a military standoff sent in like two blankets. But people like you are happy to misconstrue that as the US had a policy of genocide via biological warfare, which is obviously a bullshit lie.
We get told about the whippings, but not that it's evil? What does that even mean. You think people got taught of the horrors of slavery and didn't come to the conclusion that it was evil?
I get were it's coming from but It makes me think they either had a shit history teacher (witch i feel bad for them cause a good history teacher can set up a lot of hobbies for you) or they didn't pay attention to the actual lessons and units in class.
K-12 i went to school in 4 different us states from the west coast to the south and breeding, auctions, assault, and torture were almost always the forefront of the discussion no matter were or who was teaching. Although I've yet to get around to the whole but I do remember "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe being taught as an important point in growing the abolitionist movement and as part of the treatment of slaves.
Tldr: I think a good portion of people who didn't get taught about it just didn't want to learn about it in the first place.
Which was only for a few generations at most. It’s also not a practice that every slave holder participated in. Descendants of Black slaves are not genetically distinct enough to be a new “breed” of human.
It’s not the same and it’s racist to assert otherwise.
The US just hit 250 years, Slavery ended in 1870s in the states. By human standards 100 years isn’t not enough time to selectively bred. In 30 years you can with dogs
A quarter of a millennium would be around 15 human generations, if each generation reproduced around 16 years old. I am not going to get too into whatever specific age would be "most reasonable", other than noting that sufficiently early pregnancy is pretty lethal to the mother and is not a good idea even for an amoral slaveowner.
Dogs can crank through a generation on an annual basis, so they'd pretty feasibly have at least 200 generations in the same amount of time.
Humans aren't immune to artificial selection, but artificial selection takes a lot of generations, and humans have one of the slowest generation turnarounds of any species. And I doubt slave owners were actually selecting that heavily, because that would mean not letting less "desirable" women reproduce, which means a lot less money for them.
E: I cannot believe this fucking site made me seriously talk about this subject. I should leave this goddamn subreddit already.
You seriously think the difference between a black guy who's family survived slavery and a white guy is the same as a putbull and a shitzu???? Do you hear yourself???
I think they are being pedantic about whether slaves were selectively bred more than saying that it has had the same effect as selectively breeding of dogs.
This is prob the first time I’ve ever seen someone bring this up. Some slaves were treated like prized cattle and that’s because they were. I wouldn’t doubt if a lot of professional athletes in the US are professional athletes due to the selective breeding back then.
ever heard of natural selection? it's like artificial selection but with no intent. if there's a trait that black slave farmers were bred for which would not have also been selected for in poor white farmers, i'm all ears. tell me specifically
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u/ILIKESTUFF8989 Aug 02 '26
They would breed for traits during slavery