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45. I never said I was cancelling out your opinion or life experience

Sun Jul 31, 2022, 03:50 PM

Jul 2022

The cancelling bit and "whataboutism" label is coming from your mind, not mine. I've been fighting racism since my early teens in the 1960s. So show some respect and stop implying that I don't understand your feelings or that my seeing it in economic terms is invalid and unimportant. Looking at racism from an economic perspective is hardly unneccesary and unimportant. Nothing you have written has convinced me that stealing labor is and always has been /at the root of racism. At this point, I've expressed my view, and you can like it or lump it. I don't care.

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I understand that you see racism through the lens of racism vlyons Jul 2022 #23

Are you trying to justify American slavery to me because that's the only way white men... Heather MC Jul 2022 #24

Don't treat me like an enemy just because I see things differently vlyons Jul 2022 #31

YOU WROTE ... Heather MC Jul 2022 #32

No what I was saying was that ancient people in power used slaves from all over the world for free vlyons Jul 2022 #43

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I never said I was cancelling out your opinion or life experience vlyons Jul 2022 #45

The fact that you don't even understand the words you are speaking speaks volumes. Heather MC Jul 2022 #46

"you don't even understand the words you are speaking" vlyons Jul 2022 #47

I'm not insulting you, I'm simply not lying to you. Heather MC Jul 2022 #50

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You're erasing the truth about Black slavery in the U.S. yardwork Jul 2022 #36

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Everything you said after the but, is my point. The Republican party has been pro slavery 1776 Heather MC Aug 2022 #54

I actually was agreeing with you. summer_in_TX Aug 2022 #57

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