You just can’t win when everything is racist, I need to visit a tanning booth, real problems, a meeting I missed and more race + Black History Month memes + Alex Jones puts Scott Adams in his place!
specially like the John Cleese meme - all 5000 years of slavery and counting ! Egypt, Rome, all of Europe, they all had slaves (I am not familiar with Asian history but presume that had them too)
And how do you call people working for a few cents a day in dusty attics in Paris?
IF your ancestors were from Russia, they freed their serfs around the time of the American Civil War... And the Austrian empire did I think around the time of the American Revolution... And the Ottomans had their Janissary slave soldiers from the Balkans.... And the Barbary Coast pirates used to kidnap coastal Christians to sell as slaves until the French took over Algeria...
I read that the English took people from Patagonia to enslave them. I also saw films of them, using native Australian Aboriginals, and serf them ( I remember the film where an old man who had been a butler all his life, when set free, dropped all his clothes and walked away naked)
And how is working in factory or an office not slavery? I think the people who are truly free, are nomads or half-nomads, and that serfdom starts with settlement. Because the settlers need working hands. If you have many children they will do the work, but what if you don't?
I am originally from Belgium, and know that in Europe's history slavery has been almost constant.
exactly. formulating objective questions trying to prevent possible bias from the repondents is nothing like the flimsy way that seems to be used in this Rasmussen poll.
Apparently the Rasmussen survey did not ask the question "Is it OK to be Black?"
I guess if I was asked a question like "Is it OK to be [a particular census-recognized category]?" I would have to answer "I don't know; I don't understand the question."
Some people think that blacks have been the ONLY victims of slavery. Just like some people think that jews have been the ONLY victims of genocide. Human behavior doesn’t always change (it can), therefore it can be reasonably assumed that there have been MANY “victim classes” in history.
specially like the John Cleese meme - all 5000 years of slavery and counting ! Egypt, Rome, all of Europe, they all had slaves (I am not familiar with Asian history but presume that had them too)
And how do you call people working for a few cents a day in dusty attics in Paris?
IF your ancestors were from Russia, they freed their serfs around the time of the American Civil War... And the Austrian empire did I think around the time of the American Revolution... And the Ottomans had their Janissary slave soldiers from the Balkans.... And the Barbary Coast pirates used to kidnap coastal Christians to sell as slaves until the French took over Algeria...
I read that the English took people from Patagonia to enslave them. I also saw films of them, using native Australian Aboriginals, and serf them ( I remember the film where an old man who had been a butler all his life, when set free, dropped all his clothes and walked away naked)
And how is working in factory or an office not slavery? I think the people who are truly free, are nomads or half-nomads, and that serfdom starts with settlement. Because the settlers need working hands. If you have many children they will do the work, but what if you don't?
I am originally from Belgium, and know that in Europe's history slavery has been almost constant.
Now they should have more polls:
"Is it OK to be Jewish?"
"Is it OK to be Puerto Rican?"
"Is it OK to be Asian?"
Etc.
"Is it OK to be a woman?" - that's how silly and totally worthless the Rasmussen question really is :-((
And many will want to give what they think is the politically correct answer which is NO its not ok to be white....
exactly. formulating objective questions trying to prevent possible bias from the repondents is nothing like the flimsy way that seems to be used in this Rasmussen poll.
Half the people in the country don't even know what a woman is.
exactly! one needs careful formulation of the question in question.
I like the George Floyd statue.
Apparently the Rasmussen survey did not ask the question "Is it OK to be Black?"
I guess if I was asked a question like "Is it OK to be [a particular census-recognized category]?" I would have to answer "I don't know; I don't understand the question."
Awesome set of memes.
Cheers.
Some people think that blacks have been the ONLY victims of slavery. Just like some people think that jews have been the ONLY victims of genocide. Human behavior doesn’t always change (it can), therefore it can be reasonably assumed that there have been MANY “victim classes” in history.