• @Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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      I don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.

      • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.

        • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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          1 year ago

          I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.

          Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.

      • @Zink@programming.dev
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        21 year ago

        Here in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.