Listen WildHorseCrash! My great-grandparents weren't coal miners. Their days ended at a place called Auschwitz. Slaves in the old South, even when they were old and nonproductive, continued to be cared for. There are levels of human degradation you apparently cannot comprehend.
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And I have sympathy for them and for their descendants, including you. If I misinterpreted your previous posts as indicating that they were coal miners, then I apologize sincerely. I certainly did not imply any disrespect to you, to them or to what they experienced.
I would also point out that, on a basic level, the slave system in the South and treatment of Jews and others in Nazi occupied Europe stemmed from the same disease (manifested in different ways and to vastly different ends, of course): the misuse of the power of the state to deny and strip from individuals the most fundamental rights they enjoy, the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Slaves in the old South, even when they were old and nonproductive, continued to be cared for.
Perhaps, but that simply does not justify the fact that they had been kept as property for their entire lives.
There are levels of human degradation you apparently cannot comprehend.
No, I simply recognize that the fact that there are levels of degradation does not mean that slavery in the old South was anything but an incarnation of that degradation.