Conservatives Outraged!

This is really interesting...in a twisted way. Apparently this whole "the slaves had it pretty good" meme is just the absolute newest thing in con circles. I don't know what to make of this. I know they were told to stop talking about rape because they have offended so many women voters. So they thought what? Well okay, but you know, I have to talk about something...hey, I know, I'll talk about all the happy slaves!

WTF?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/...e-slavery-wasnt-so-bad-kept-business-rolling/
 
There's really no arguing with the tards on this subject.

Anything less than 100% acceptance of the Hollywood portrayal receives the falsehood back, "LOL! You believe slaves were all happy 'n dancin 'n shit."

What's the point of arguing with willful ignorance?
 
Taft2016 said:
There's really no arguing with the tards on this subject.

Anything less than 100% acceptance of the Hollywood portrayal receives the falsehood back, "LOL! You believe slaves were all happy 'n dancin 'n shit."

What's the point of arguing with willful ignorance?
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do you or do you not believe that this movie was INACCURATE in its portrayal of slavery? Simple question.... try giving a simple answer, please.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Wow....I mean wow!!

Excuse me....I have to go wash...after reading this filth I feel...well dirty.

Who is this pervert Bowman? Does he even have a clue what he is rationalizing? "If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr McQueen does not want us to hear about it".???!!

I mean holy bat shit. Fuck no. Anyone who would take another humans freedom away and exploit them as little more than live stock is a fucking depraved individual by any civilized definintion. In other word by the very defintion of slavery there could no in no way shape or form be a kindly slave master. I mean how kindly can slavery be when it's a social institution enforced upon somone by coercion and violence at the point of a gun!!!! I mean what the fuck was this stupid asshole thinking or is he even capable of thinking?

The fact that this perverted sicko Bowman doesn't "get it" isn't just reprehensible it's just plain disgusting. What a sick bastard and by proxy the American Spectator editorial board must be composed of degenerate and depraved bastards who should have no part in American political life for endorsing such a twisted and evil article.

If I was a partisan white conservative southerner I'd tell this sick fuck to get lost.
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all we have to do.

is enslave these writers for a bit.

just for a while

Have them bring us breakfast in bed, take out the trash, get groceries, etc. Put them in a nice shack in the backyard.

and make sure we are 'nice' to them.

When we finally decide to free them, they should remember that we weren't that bad.
 
maineman said:
then you believe that propaganda can in fact be accurate? And if so.... what exactly makes it "propaganda"?
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this film is nothing more than sensitivity training for dumbasses. Now be a good little liberal and make a donation to the united negro college fund. ;)
 
Accurate in all cases? Is that what you're saying? You're saying there were zero instances of benevolent slave owners? Even the blacks who owned slaves?

Are you saying the portrayal was a 100% accurate portrayal of every American slave-master relationship?
 
The conservatives on this thread are wonderful.

Who else thinks that Granule's avatar looks like something from the middle ages? It just looks so appropriate.
 
From PBS.org, that noted stronghold of conservatism:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3101.html

Planters viewed themselves as benevolent patriarchs with respect to the institution of slavery. They felt that they treated their slaves humanely. They fed them well. They did not require more work than was required of agricultural laborers generally. They gave them generous holidays. It was not uncommon, for example, for slaves to receive as much as seven days at Christmas. In fact, I think the average on one Louisiana plantation that I dealt with recently was eight and a half days at Christmas.

They also had a system of rewards as well as punishments. We're all familiar with the whipping, which was certainly endemic on southern plantations. That was the normal form of punishment. But there [were] also systems of rewards. There was a Louisiana planter, for example, who operated a sugar plantation south of New Orleans. And the records indicate that he supplied the slaves there with mosquito nets, with sheets, with socks. This is highly unusual, I'll admit. But [he] also rewards [with] pay for overtime work on Sundays and on holidays, and generally tried to balance the punishment with rewards. [He] gave gifts at certain times to both male and female slaves and to the children. Generally a very benevolent master. Slaveowners felt that they treated their charges much better than northern factory workers treated the operatives in the New England textile mills and other manufacturing establishments.

They believed that slavery was in harmony with Christianity. Indeed, you know, the Bible condemns a great many things. It condemns murder, and it condemns thievery and adultery and so on, but nowhere does it condemn slavery explicitly. Of course, you can use the Bible to support any position that you choose to take. But there is no explicit injunction, and slaveowners, many of whom were devout Christians, felt that the Bible sanctioned slavery. There are Biblical characters with slaves. One Georgia woman, Gertrude Thomas, when [her] slaves were emancipated in 1865, had her Christian faith challenged by that very act. She says, "The Bible says it's all right, and now the slaves are emancipated. What am I to make of the Bible, God's holy book?" she said. So they believed that it was in harmony with the Bible. They believed they were doing good works by introducing Africans to Christianity, an elevated religion. They saw the plantation as a school by which they could elevate a less fortunate people to a more civilized form of life. The only problem with the "plantation as a school" thesis, as my old professor used to say, was that there was never a graduation day.
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God Taft you really are a staggering moron. I thought USF was the only poster here who had somehow managed to weaponize stupidity.

"Planters viewed themselves as benevolent"

And I'm certain you view yourself as someone with a functioning brain. However, until I see a recent EEG, I remain unconvinced.
 
I must say - the "pro-slavery" position has really been forwarded in an articulate & compelling fashion on this thread.

I've thought about it, though, and decided that I'm still against it. It just seems wrong.
 
Darla said:
This is really interesting...in a twisted way. Apparently this whole "the slaves had it pretty good" meme is just the absolute newest thing in con circles. I don't know what to make of this. I know they were told to stop talking about rape because they have offended so many women voters. So they thought what? Well okay, but you know, I have to talk about something...hey, I know, I'll talk about all the happy slaves!

WTF?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/...e-slavery-wasnt-so-bad-kept-business-rolling/
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When did one person's comment qualify as a meme?.....
 
Well, the Republican outreach to minority voters is going great guys!

I really want to encourage you fellas in this. In fact, you should put this whole "you can't prove there were no happy slaves" narrative into the 2016 Republican platform. Add it in next to "when a woman is legitimately raped, pregnancy is rare, they have a way of shutting that whole thing down"

I predict sweeping electoral success!
 
the last time someone ran on a "slaves are happy" platform the Democrats seceded from the union and the Republicans had to whip their ass and free their slaves......
 
Thing1 said:
I must say - the "pro-slavery" position has really been forwarded in an articulate & compelling fashion on this thread.

I've thought about it, though, and decided that I'm still against it. It just seems wrong.
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And here we find ourselves again banging heads with the braindead and willfully ignorant.

Nobody here has articulated a pro-slavery position. We're trying to have an adult discussion about an historical era, which the American left has transformed into some sort of religious faith, and now plug their fingers into their ears and scream "la! la! la!" at any historical academia that does not completely adhere to their religious perspectives.
 
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