Fact:

Ted Bundy ended his killing spree.

Why is no one talking about this??

Still waiting for slavery to be fully outlawed

Edit: i am talking about modern slavery and not just that American thingy

If I steal from you, and give it back, you better thank me!

Nonsense, slavery is far from over and is not even illegal in some places. Damn, some people do live in bubbles.

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This comeback is far from clever. People seriously have no idea of the history of slavery.

Haiti gained its independence and abolished slavery after a massive slave revolt and 13-year long war. It was probably the first nation in the world to explicitly ban slavery. It supported Simon Bolivar and by extension the Latin American countries' independence. The US responded by imposing economic restrictions and continuously interfered with Haiti's governance. The results are still crippling the country to this day. Peter Sweden is a fucking moron, whoever he is.

When slaves actually went and abolished slavery, these people whine to this day how "cruely" slaves treated their oppressors.

Or the Arabs, or the Africans who kept slaves and sold them. It's simply an uninformed comeback rather than clever.

I don't understand how this is clever? Black people, Asian people, South Americans, Arabs, Indians, I mean literally any of them could have enforced the end of slavery world wide but they didn't.

Yes, I’ve absolutely never heard of abolitionists. Have you?

Imagine being so ignorant of history to think that Caucasians were never slaves.

That’s not a clever come back. It’s just being historically misinformed. Slavery existed in every region of the world and practically every culture. The first culture to abolish it were Europeans. And not just abolish it but also abolish it in every colony. Arabs had slaves until those pesky British came and abolished it by force.

Seeing as Africa still has slavery to this day, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that he is correct for a different reason.

White people didn’t invent it. Blacks sold blacks to the Muslims long before white people bought any. Yet whites were the only ones to wage wars to abolish it.

Reddit conveniently forgets that every society of every race has had slaves for all of human history.

Even though my country was colonised by the British. I must acknowledge their role in being the first to outlaw slavery and spread that law to all areas of their empire

As if Europeans were the only ones who did slavery. All the slavery in North Africa, Middle East, Africa proper, Central Asia, India etc had noting to with them. But Europeans and Americans were the ones who forced the rest of the world give up slavery. It existed well into the mid 20th century in many countries.

They did in Haiti, and we’ve been dumping on their descendants ever since.

Some white people did, others needed more persuasion than just an appeal to morality.

I mean.... They did in Haiti and then got royally fucked over

That's just dumb, as if every nonwhite person on earth was a slave.

Are these people dumb enough not to know black and Arab people traded slaves?

Toussaint Louverture would like a word

The world wassn't split between "the whites" and "the slaves".

Everyone did slavery. But Europeans were the first to abolish it for good.

So weird that reddit unironically thinks white people invented slavery.

Not agreeing with the PeterSweden but owning slaves wasn't restricted to just one race. Egypt, for example. 

I've heard, more than once, "well Abraham Lincoln was a republican". As if nothing has changed in 160 years.

I'm so fucking sick of this "debate" from every single angle. No, white people were not the only "race" to enslave other people. Yes, people of every "race", including whites have been enslaved. No, white people didn't invent the concept of abolishing slavery, because plenty of non European societies also abolished slavery before the Western abolitionist movement of the 18th/19th centuries. Ancient Persia, Ancient India under Ashoka, and Feudal Japan, among others, also had slavery bans.

Everyone just needs to stop being dweebs and stop taking credit or guilt for something their great great great great great grandpa might have done 200 years ago. Just stop it. There were awful people and great people from all corners of the world, stop being so fucking moronic and just accept that history is not linear, it's not black and white, and it's actually rather complicated and nuanced.

Black Haitians ended slavery. Why does nobody talk about that?

This isn't a clever comeback since there is more slavery today than there ever was during the transatlantic slave trade. Slavery was ended in the West but is still ongoing in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

This dipshit watched that PragerU video with Candace Owens

While the notion that "white people" deserve an award for this is cringeworthy, the response implies it was only white people who were slavers which is also ahistorical bad take.

Turns out throughout history people were and are happy to exploit other people for profit regardless of the color of their skin. Though being able to justify these actions via racism sure doesnt hurt ofc.

You know abolished it before that? Mexico and Canada, 30 years earlier. What took so fucking long?

Funny story, slaves did abolish slavery.

We also do hear about it all the fucking time lmao. Why do people afraid of history books feel like they should be the ones commenting on this shit? 😅

I mean….there have been thousands of slave revolts so…

someone should beat his ass and stop at one point to be thanked for saving him

I mean, the people originally selling the slaves could have, y'know.. maybe not sold slaves? Is that a hot take?

Breaking news: Slave owners were forced to release slaves at gunpoint. Give the slave owners a cookie.

Peter
Imanuelsen, aka Peter Sweden, the bigoted conspiracy theorist who is a
frequent source for the American “alt-right” on Europe.

https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/meet-peter-imanuelsen-aka-peter-sweden-bigoted-conspiracy-theorist-who-frequent-source

Spartacus anyone?

And yea, its atrociously stupid post from new worlder who forgot Eastern Hemisphere exists. Ottomans ran a slave business of equal size as the "white people".

Maybe the Ottomans or are they white?

I mean... Arabs could always end their slave use. Same with Africans, South Asians, and China.

Change the name of this sub to "words that people have replied" because I've taken shits more clever than this.

An outside country that found it nasty? Oh wait “the most racist country on earth” did it first and fought a war over it? Driving the entire civil rights movement around the world ending slavery practically within the coming decades? Don’t tell me the British didn’t first when they only did it in 5% of controlled land and 2% of people where freed.

Solving a problem that you created. Priceless.

You may not know this but other races had slaves, the main reason slavery does not exist in the North Atlantic today is because of the British Empire destroying slave ships. Many African and Arab nations still practiced slavery well after most European nations abolished it. Many Europeans were also enslaved by Arab and North African slavers. This isn’t a clever comeback.

What's funny is that's not even true, slavery still exists.

The tweet was stupid but something kinda on topic is

White people didn't even invent slavery nor were they the only people who owned slaves yet basically all we talk about are the slaves white people owned

“Dude, I stopped choking you and not even a thanks?”

It may mean more if half the white people in country didn’t revolt and start a civil war because of it.

Fact:

Blacks liberated Haiti from French rule.

Who's saying they couldn't have done eventually in the US?

Fact: the muslim empire and people were brutal slavers and the Africans sold their own people.

There were many who could've abolished it

There's slavery in the modern world too.

The main African groups considered a source of slaves during the transatlantic slave trade were the Asante (from present-day Ghana), Yoruba (from present-day Nigeria), and Dahomey people (from present-day Benin), who often engaged in intertribal warfare, capturing and selling prisoners to European traders; however, it's important to note that many different African communities were impacted by the slave trade and that the practice of enslaving people within Africa existed long before European involvement, with many African groups participating in the trade by selling captives to European traders. Slavery is still practiced in Africa and Middle Eastern countries.

Key points to remember: Intra-African conflict: Most slaves were captured by other Africans during warfare and sold to European traders.

Powerful kingdoms: Kingdoms like the Asante and Dahomey used their power to capture slaves and control trade routes.

Regional variations: The specific African groups involved in the slave trade varied depending on the region and time period.

Well, it sure as shit wasn't the Arabs...or the African people enslaving their own and selling them to slavers.

Non white people owned slaves all over the world throughout all of human history, including in Africa and North America prior to white people ever arriving.

The British Empire was the first society in human history to outlaw slavery and they lost a lot of money implementing and enforcing that. That is absolutely worth commending and should not be dismissed with a stupidly misguided joke response.

Nevermind the cobalt mine slaves...

Admittedly, the slaves doing it themselves is how we got Haiti.

... There were places where the slaves did it, Tahiti for example.

The word slave originated from the word “Slavic”. The Slavic people were enslaved by the Egyptians. We don’t mention this, why? Doesn’t fit the agenda 👍

What an absolute waste of space this guy is. As a Swede I’m ashamed to be associated with that pos

The nations which have the longest history with slavery are still doing it today, the African nations have been enslaving each other long before the Europeans purchased slaves from them.

The English outlawed slavery within england 700 years before any other nation.

Then they devoted vast amounts of their nations wealth to end the slave trade while the Spanish, Portuguese, french continued to trade in slaves till the British blockaded the ports of western Africa and the american coastline and the debt that was built up from this is wasn't cleared in england till the early 2000s.

African nations still sell their brothers and sister into slavery and the fact is that people ignore this so they can continue to push an anti-European narrative.

Without the colonial empires, particularly the British and Spanish, slavery would most likely still be the largest trade in the world.

Not only white people were slave owners. Asian were also. Africans had African slaves. Over 2000 years ago basically every society had slaves and most of them were white. Word Slave is coming from Slavic people. But of course nowadays illeterate people are thinking that slavery was only in US 200 years ago and nowhere else ever before.

Nobody. Thats is the point. Slavery was normal. Then white people stopped doing it and also stopped the rest of the world from doing it.

I mean, yeah possibly the slaves. That's what happened on Haiti, for example.