Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    61·
    9 months ago

    We in the west have a basis to call this person immoral.

    The places where slavery is legal do not have that basis.

    • HandBreadedTools@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Ask the slaves that lol. That argument is moot because it relies on legitimizing the oppression committed by slavers by not seeing enslaved people as part of the population/group. Their history was not recorded the same way the slaver’s history was, yet they were still humans that thought about, talked about, and theorized about morality too. You don’t get to claim to know the group consensus of a past society just because slavers used oppression to erase the viewpoints of those who disagreed.