Posted on 07/21/2017 12:23:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
We should complain that there is not enough diversity being portrayed in the slaves.
There should be Chinese, Irish, and other Races besides Africans being portrayed as slaves.
The funny thing is that this is Historical FACT!
Handmaids Tale and slavery are in the world today but no one in Hollywood is willing to make a tv series about muslims exposing the reality of Islamic theocracy.
“There should be Chinese, Irish, and other Races besides Africans being portrayed as slaves.”
That’s funny and a good satiric point.
“The funny thing is that this is Historical FACT!”
No, not really.
Methinks Rush doth protest too much. Alternate history has been very popular in print and on film. Harry Turtledove did a whole series on the South winning and what followed. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America” was a movie that was made about 10 years ago. “Fatherland” was a book and a movie that postulated a Nazi win. “Red Dawn” theorized a war between the U.S. and Russia/Cuba. There isn’t politics behind this, there’s money.
Actually, Chinese building the railroads were treated as slaves and shot if they tried to escape. The Irish were also slaves at one time.
“There isn’t politics behind this, there’s money.”
Maybe - maybe not.
Let’s see how things are portrayed. For example, if the Democrat Party is somehow listed as the party of freedom, its politics.
> That’s not even the half of it. Stir up trouble? How about causing trouble? <
Rush is right once again. America is supposed to be a melting pot. Melting pots don’t happen automatically. It takes effort to make it work.
Unfortunately, the media elite have chosen to try to divide us. Bring up old wounds, and then rub salt in them. Make Citizen A hate Citizen B for events that happened long ago.
So why not these shows as well? Make them as bloody and graphic as possible. Get everyone all enraged.
“Massacre I”: The story of how U.S. troops killed innocent Indians. Be sure to show dead Indian babies.
“Massacre II”: The story of how Indian warriors killed white settlers. Be sure to show dead white babies.
“Urban Warfare I”: The story of how rogue white police officers kill innocent black people. Be sure to show dead black children.
“Urban Warfare II”: The story of how rogue blacks kill innocent white people. Be sure to show dead white children.
The people who have become filthy rich in this country are the ones who rip it to shreds the most. To them, I say, get the f*ck out!
I would support this if they let it be known every second in the show that the slave owners are Democraps. “Hey Democrat Joe, how are ya doin?” “Hey Democrat Dave, you got any n-s to sell me?” “Sure Democrat Joe, I’ll send the right over to your Democrat plantation”
In "C.S.A: The Confederate States of America" the Democrats were the party in power in the Confederacy. And that film was written and directed by a black man.
I knew the authors wife back in high school.
Older kid was begging me to get HBO so she could watch the new season of Game of Thrones. I refused. Not going to put my money into HBO’s hands. And not going to watch any shows or movies with slavery as the main topic or setting or whatever. That shit ended a long time ago and the leftists need to give it a rest and move on. I’ve never held a slave, nor have any of my ancestors.
“Actually, Chinese building the railroads were treated as slaves and shot if they tried to escape. The Irish were also slaves at one time.”
Chinese were never slaves in the US.
Irish were sold in to slavery early on, not in what became the US.
There’s no upside of trying to equate what was done to Africans vis-a-vis slavery and other groups, because it’s not true there’s any equivalency or even similarity.
It’s just weird.
I too was thinking of Harry Turtledove’s “Southern Victory” series of novels: How Few Remain, American Front, Walk in Hell, Breakthroughs, Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, The Victorious Opposition, Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, & In at the Death
Slavery would have changed along with society and technology. Today it would be more like an H-1b visa program.
I think Turtledove went a bit overboard with the Nazi parallels but overall an OK series.
Info from the Borgen Project:
https://borgenproject.org/10-statistics-on-slavery-today/
1. An estimated 29.8 million people live in modern slavery today
2. Slavery generates $32 billion for traffickers globally each year
3. Approximately 78% of victims are enslaved for labor, 22% of victims are enslaved for sex
4. 55% of slavery victims are women and girls
5. 26% of slaves today are children under the age of 18
6. An estimated 60,000 victims of slavery are enslaved in the United States.
The 2013 Walk Free Global Slavery Index places U.S. at 134th out of 162 countries
Rankings were determined based on three factors: a country’s estimated slavery prevalence by population, a measure of child marriage and a measure of human trafficking.
7. Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom tied for the ranking of 160 in the 2013 Global Slavery Index. However, even with the top ranking in the survey, these countries are not free from slavery. In the United Kingdom alone, there are an estimated 4,200 to 4,600 victims of slavery.
8. The country with the highest percentage of of its population in slavery is Mauritania with approximately 4% of the total population enslaved. This amounts to roughly 140,000 to 160,000 people enslaved — Mauritania’s total population is only a mere 3.8 million.
9. India has the largest number of slavery victims at a horrifying 14 million.
10. The top 10 per-capita slavery hot spots are:
Mauritania
Haiti
Pakistan
India
Nepal
Moldova
Benin
Cote d’Ivoire
Gambia
Gabon
Hilariously, the BLM set is roasting these guys over this. I love watching liberals fight amongst themselves.
Hilariously, the BLM set is roasting these guys over this. I love watching liberals fight amongst themselves.
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