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"Now let's dress up in boiler plates and have a shootout with the police" (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They were limited by the ignorance of their time. …….Or whatever Tony Starks dad said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah. That's bull shit. I don't know why people like to pretend that there were not massive amounts of the population that saw slavery as immoral and cruel.

Hell, they literally had to invent "whiteness and blackness" as racial constructs to justify continuing to enslave the African slaves that converted to Christianity. Suddenly their rules in place about not enslaving other Christians needed a workaround written into them.

These were not "moral for their time" people in any sense of the word.