worldoptimization
I feel like there are a bunch of people from whom, given their views on immigration, I’d expect to see more hand-wringing about how the slave trade was the worst mistake in American history
rendakuenthusiast
I’ve seen exactly this take from right-wing anti-immigrationists. Also “Canada is what the US would’ve been without slavery” in the context of implying that Canada is superior to the US.
samueldays
A phrase you can search for to find a lot of this is “should have picked our own cotton”, optionally with a ‘fucking’ or ‘damn’ or other intensifier in there.
worldoptimization
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