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siryouarebeingmocked:

fecktrecool:

purplepints:

likegreyskies:

possibly the most important addition this week on Hozier Liked

Indentured servitude is opresssion.

Indentured servitude is not chattel slavery.

The Irish were oppressed and have a history of indentured servitude.

The Irish were not bought and sold or held as property generation to generation.

Please stop confusing the two. Thanks.

If you can be ‘silenced’ by pointing out facts which contradict your narrative, you weren’t saying anything of worth anyway.

Also, y’all only care about these kind of nuances when it’s deflecting time, and these rebuttals aren’t directed at black people, but anyone who makes certain arguments. Stop trying to hide behind people like me. 

Odd how posts like OP never pretend to address the Barbary Pirates, who straight up raided Europe for slaves.

sneggleblech:

avesblues:

caligulasterrarium:

avesblues:

caligulasterrarium:

thatlogos-deactivated20210124:

caligulasterrarium:

thatlogos-deactivated20210124:

caligulasterrarium:

bransrath:

i know this is a shitpost but the pyramids were built by corvée labor, not slaves

in ancient egypt it was common for farmers to be conscripted for public works projects during the time of year when the nile flooded and they could not work their land – this practice was widespread throughout the ancient near-east and the egyptians considered it a form of taxation

Do you… know what conscripting someone means? It means taking them from their home and forcing them to do labor. If only we had a word for people this happened to

it’s unfree labor, but it isn’t slavery any more than taxation is robbery

Bruh “unfree labor” is literally the definition of slavery

slavery is a type of unfree labor. other types include military conscription, penal labor, and corvée labor.

All of the labor you stated is still exploiting people and is just as bad as American slavery lmao. Dude just did a 360. You said it wasn’t slavery then said slavery is a type of unfree labor… which would still make it.. slavery. Any labor that forces and exploits people into work and doesn’t grant fair rights along with a payment, is slavery.

not sure how to explain to someone that buying and selling human beings as property is different from conscripting farmers for a few weeks out of the year when they’re unable to work their farms anyway…

But that is not what the Egyptians did. Conscripting is defined as compulsory, compulsory means you are being forced or doing so against your own will. Slavery is when you are owned as property or also defined as someone being exploited and are forced against your will to do a certain task. The new modern idea that Egyptians didn’t have slavery is bullshit and is a way to try and rewrite history to fit a new narrative. Egyptians owned and used slaves to build their empire and pyramids. “Asian slaves, whether merchandise or prisoners of war, became plentiful in wealthy Egyptian households [prior to the New Kingdom]”, we read in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It’s estimated that Pharaohs’ pyramids arose between 2670 BC and 664 BC..and the language used by the Egyptians is complicated and can be altered to fit a specific narrative. However, Egyptians had chattel slavery, bonded labor and forced labor. Slaves were vital for the Egyptian workforce and were used in every day life. And with our modern language many historians try to frame slavery as we know it today but what we know about Egypt is that slavery was very prominent and the whole narrative shift has been due to archeologists finding tombs which they ASSUMED were filled with “laborers”. Historians may not call these people slaves due to our modern day defintion but these people weren’t doing labor at free will BUT not all were seen as property-modern scape goat to not call it slavery. Archeologists say it was workers who were loyal to the Pharaoh that built the pyramids but looking at the history of ancient Egypt it’s easy to conclude NOT all workers were loyal and most were forced to do the work in fear of disobedience.

Not to mention, taxation is robbery.

siryouarebeingmocked:

senpatriarch:

padawan-historian:

DIVERSITY IS NOT SAMENESS.

There are so many bad ass Africans throughout history, as noted in the tweets. What I wouldn’t give to see a historical drama about Mansa Musa, shit would be dope AF

It’s rather ironic that she wants society to focus more on actual stories about or inspired by actual black people while she keeps blaming white people for Atlantic slavery. Even though it was already going on in Africa when Europeans came along, they just exploited it. 

I wonder what she would say if someone asked her about Barbary Slavers, who captured white people straight from the tap, so to speak. 

And…is that an example from Hamilton? A play created by a Hispanic man? One of the Wokest men on Broadway?

I guess he’s technically white, but it seems to me she’s ignoring how minorities also racebend, and how people often claim racebending is necessary in the name of diversity and representation, not just shallow aesthetics. I, of course, disagree.