yeah, but these are people who had slavery, or slave-like labor much later than "white" countries.
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Not sure why this is being discussed in past-tense, slavery is alive and well in many countries. Lebanon, Somalia, Palestine, Iran, etc. Its all documented and public information people just dont go out of their way to look it up.
I should keep those two as separate thoughts. Slavery was the primary economic mode, that started to change once the division of labor started affecting all classes. It remained, but pretty much only for primary level of income, agriculture, mining, and construction. The goods and services side didn’t have as much slavery. Each growing economy uses forced labor at some point. What makes the “whites” more frowned upon was the fact that one it people advertise it more. “Slavery in the Americas was terrible!” Not only is the act advertised, but the aftermath of the slavery. Blacks who for two generations after emancipation, were not given under law equal opportunity. From that point on our frowning moves towards slavery of the natives by Columbus, this because of our already bad taste towards American slavery. The old world slavery is seen as an “ancient” bygone thing when it was still a thing during American slavery. It just wasn’t advertised, or advocated against with equal fervor.
I'm pretty sure it's because most of if not all of the people who bitch about it are Americans, and that's the only slavery you're taught about in school so that's the only one you know about and it's more close to home.
“Got away” with slavery? Did they? There are long standing political, military, and cultural tensions between China and Japan, Korea and Japan, over events that occurred in the past. When we look at many of these countries that “got away” with slavery we can see a few things. Many tend to be mostly homogenous nations, where there is a single majority culture versus nations where there is more cultural flexibility and larger populations of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities. There are socio economic factors and other matters of relevant history as well. This meme shows a complete lack of understanding to history, politics, and the root issues as well as reality in general. It exists as a tool for apologists and the like to paint “white countries” as victims in some mass conspiracy to scapegoat them unfairly, and is literally a mirror of anti Semitic propoganda used during the halocaust by Nazis to raise hate towards Jews and allied powers for “unfairly” making Germany a “pariah.”
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