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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by likeclockwork on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:06PM (#36880070)
The slaves knew slavery was wrong. Why are you only interested in the slaver's viewpoint?
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by pc86 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:14PM (#36880160)
Because the comment was about the people who owned slaves (the juxtaposition of drinking a lot with founding a country at the same time, and perhaps their lives/"productivity" compared to the GP's families). Replying to that perfectly reasonable comment with "yeah but SLAVES" is lazy and boring.
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by ke88y on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:20AM (#36893041)
> productivity

> yeah but SLAVES

It's astounding to me that so many people completely missed the point that these two things are related.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that GP's family probably didn't have an army of black people doing all their chores and generating a healthy income stream to live off, for free, so that they could engage full-time in civics.

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