Here's his "Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery":
- SLAVERY WAS AN ANCIENT AND UNIVERSAL INSTITUTION, NOT A DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INNOVATION.
Slavery. It's OK, everyone was doing it! - SLAVERY EXISTED ONLY BRIEFLY, AND IN LIMITED LOCALES, IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC – INVOLVING ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S AMERICANS.
Only five people ever owned slaves, and only for like five minutes. The Civil War was fought largely over a case of particularly yummy Salt Water Taffy. The resultant poverty and oppression of Blacks in America is because they are, indeed, lazy and shiftless. - THOUGH BRUTAL, SLAVERY WASN’T GENOCIDAL: LIVE SLAVES WERE VALUABLE BUT DEAD CAPTIVES BROUGHT NO PROFIT.
In fact, slaves who were killed were tickled to death by kittens. - IT’S NOT TRUE THAT THE U.S. BECAME A WEALTHY NATION THROUGH THE ABUSE OF SLAVE LABOR: THE MOST PROSPEROUS STATES IN THE COUNTRY WERE THOSE THAT FIRST FREED THEIR SLAVES.
Northern states learned it years before, but those pesky backwards Southern states never quite realized that slaves couldn't be used as railroad tracks and lumber mills. Northerners, of course, never understood how to use a slave as a teapot. - WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID ABOLITION.
Hey, we got rid of it right quick! Please disregard that there were slave-owners at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation who were British citizens by dint of their fathers being British Citizens prior to 1776, regardless of the fact that they were born in America. Other than that, yeah, we got rid of it first! Well, except for Iceland, Norway, Sweeden, Finland, Lithuania, Japan, Russia, Portugal, England, Denmark, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Uraguay, Argentina, Tunisia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Moldavia and Wallachia, and Cuba. - THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT TODAY’S AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEIR ANCESTORS HAD REMAINED BEHIND IN AFRICA.
There's also no reason to believe that today's Native Americans would be better off if European settlers hadn't given them blankets infected with smallpox. I guess we'll never know!
-pb
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He's right about #4, though - It wasn't through the abuse of slave labor. Merely the use.
But then they never would have found Jesus, and they'd all have gone to Hell! Genocide and forcible removal from your land is but a tiny price to pay in exchange for a free pass out of eternal damnation!
He's right about #4, though - It wasn't through the abuse of slave labor. Merely the use.
Well, this is of course the Conservative lizard brain in action - "abuse" in their parlance is the "use" of anything they disagree with* - for example, drugs. To them, no one actually "uses" illegal drugs. In their thinking, illegal drugs are always "abused" when they're being ingested (especially if you're a cancer patient smoking weed to dull pain or create appetite - you're a fucking monster who's literally killing America by financing terrorists. Please buy more gas for your SUV).
* Note that Medved isn't actually defending the institution of slavery here, he's just trying to make it sound less harsh in order to explain that black people are, in fact, lazy and shiftless, and deserve the fact that they make up a disproportionate amount of people in prison or living in poverty.
-pb