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An Immodest Proposal: Cancel Slavery
MOTUS ^ | 6-25-20 | MOTUS

Posted on 06/25/2020 5:21:44 AM PDT by NOBO2012

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the ...

Some Definitions:

Cancel: delete, annul, invalidate, nullify, abolish, void, revoke, negate, scratch

Cancel Culture: Canceling and cancel culture have to do with the removing of support for public figures in response to their objectionable behavior or opinions.

"“Cancel Culture” originally referred to having someone “canceled” from social media platforms for putting forth “objectionable behavior or opinions” but quickly mutated to a higher stakes game. Soon the woke mob was demanding that people whose opinions somehow offended them or they simply didn’t agree with be silenced not just on socials but in reality. They demanded they be fired from their jobs, their lectures, performances, writings be canceled, their products boycotted and ultimately their prior achievements negated.

The angry mob, feeling their unchecked power, quickly up their demands. Now they want police departments  canceled (because – oppression!) and statues (because, oppressors!) toppled.

So allow me, if I may, to make an immodest proposal: as we are clearly rewriting the history of this country anyway, and as it appears to be at the root of the angry mob’s animosity, why don’t we simply cancel slavery? Holocaust denial seems to work for Muslims so why can’t slavery denial work for Americans? We wouldn’t have to go so far as to claim it was a hoax, we can simply cancel it in its entirety – like it never even happened!

Just think of it as history restoration.

George Orwell Quote

Posted from: MOTUS A.D.


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; cancelculture; history; slavery

1 posted on 06/25/2020 5:21:44 AM PDT by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

This has been my view.

Erase CWI & before - and slavery is gone, too


2 posted on 06/25/2020 5:24:45 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: combat_boots

How about canceling the slavery of welfare and snap. No more slaves to the system!


3 posted on 06/25/2020 5:30:00 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: NOBO2012
My view? Why does it even come up. It's history in this country. We're waaaaay beyond that time.

It's time for blacks to appreciate their ancestors and step up. Get an education....It opens doors. Stop abortion. 36% of all abortions are black...but they make up only 14% of the women who can have children.

4 posted on 06/25/2020 5:32:10 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

I agree. To me this is a little like English peasants today still being upset with their Monarch over how Wat Tyler’s rebellion of 1381 was handled.

Very much water under the bridge. No one cares. There are no more peasants. The Monarchy is completely changed. Everything is different now. Why even think about that event, unless you are a historian?

I think American slavery is the same thing. It’s over. We’ve done what we could to right the wrong, and now we’re done. Very much water under the bridge as far as I’m concerned.


5 posted on 06/25/2020 6:18:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: NOBO2012

Keep this very, very quiet.

Does anyone think a bunch of musket carrying white men could have gone to the interior of Africa and captured 7 million people without getting put into a pot and boiled?

They didn’t have to.

You see, all the African Counties on the Western coast of Africa did that for them. And they got rich selling these slaves to the Dutch and English sailors.

So if there is anybody that really owes payment for slavery, they are on the Western coast of Africa. Only about a million and a half of those people went to North America. The remainder went elsewhere.

But they were ALL captured by their own brothers.


6 posted on 06/25/2020 6:21:43 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: NOBO2012

When there’s no longer any record or memory of slaveowners, there could never have been any slaves, so we don’t need to hear about the issue ever again.


7 posted on 06/25/2020 6:28:17 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: I cannot think of a name
Does anyone think a bunch of musket carrying white men could have gone to the interior of Africa and captured 7 million people without getting put into a pot and boiled?

The question no one wants to address.

8 posted on 06/25/2020 8:06:08 AM PDT by ealgeone
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