GOP Sen. Tom Cotton calls slavery "a necessary evil"

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27 Jul 2020, 8:35 pm

if you can't see it then i submit you don't want to see it. i'm not paying any more attention to what you post. i suggest if you don't like my posts, that you do likewise.

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27 Jul 2020, 8:52 pm

auntblabby wrote:

if you can't see it then i submit you don't want to see it. i'm not paying any more attention to what you post. i suggest if you don't like my posts, that you do likewise.

Just because you WANT to believe certain people hold views doesn't mean that they actually do. Trying to reframe a quote, out of contect, in order to "support" your beliefs, will only weaken the likelihood of others agreeing with you (or believing you) in the long run.

If this person is a "racist" as you make him out to be, why should you need to misrepresent his statements to support this claim?

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27 Jul 2020, 10:00 pm

It was only a “necessary evil” for economic reasons.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:10 pm

IOW not a "necessary" evil at all, but strictly gratuitous evil. slavery is NEVER excusable, NEVER.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:31 pm

Nope. Not excusable.

Just stating the Southern “justification” for it. Unpaid labor was the backbone of the Southern agrarian economy.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:33 pm

a major portion of the GOP is still fine with it, however, that much is plain.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:33 pm

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but outside of that, being a moral-less, greedy, sociopathic son of a b!tch, who steps on others to advance, is basically required to succeed in the work (slave) culture america has constructed, so it's only a natural consequence that the last men standing after this brutal process reach public office and enact law. and it comes out in what they do.
talking about both parties BTW.

Yes, there is a nature/nurture aspect to this. If in the past the greatest sociopaths and psychopaths survived wars and prospered then their spawn would naturally be the next generation of sociopaths and psychopaths who are in charge.

These values naturally get passed on in the conservative "incubators" or bubbles. The nature aspect stems from the fact that personality traits are genetic and so are also passed on. This largely explains the intransigence of middle America to change and their "rallying" around their "type" when they get into political office and spout information that sounds like nonsense to rationale minded people.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:35 pm

auntblabby wrote:

a major portion of the GOP is still fine with it, however, that much is plain.

Is this a personal assumption, or do you have evidence to support this claim?

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27 Jul 2020, 10:35 pm

i will not cease to be gobsmacked that there are actual aspies on this site who are not outraged by this situation.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:42 pm

auntblabby wrote:

i will not cease to be gobsmacked that there are actual aspies on this site who are not outraged by this situation.

You seem surprised that people like to see evidence, rather than unsuported assertions, before making their minds up on a subject?

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27 Jul 2020, 10:44 pm

Brictoria wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a major portion of the GOP is still fine with it, however, that much is plain.

Is this a personal assumption, or do you have evidence to support this claim?

Why does this seem so hard to digest? just google republican support for Trump and its rather common knowledge that Trump style politics has majority support from republicans.

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27 Jul 2020, 10:47 pm

cyberdad wrote:

Brictoria wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a major portion of the GOP is still fine with it, however, that much is plain.

Is this a personal assumption, or do you have evidence to support this claim?

Why does this seem so hard to digest? just google republican support for Trump and its rather common knowledge that Trump style politics has majority support from republicans.

I have yet to find any evidence to support claims that "GOP" is fine with slavery, which was what my responce was to...Not sure what Mr Trump, or Republican support for him has to do with this outside of an attempt to deflect from what I was enquiring about.

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27 Jul 2020, 11:02 pm

Well, I know one person is not an ideal sample size but I had a friend who was republican. She believed slavery was OK. She disagreed with breaking up families, though. She also believed in a "modified caste system" for the United States.

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27 Jul 2020, 11:04 pm

rotten cotten has previously said that a certain leadership caste of men like himself should have sole control over the nation, democracy be damned.

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27 Jul 2020, 11:04 pm

Brictoria wrote:

cyberdad wrote:

Brictoria wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a major portion of the GOP is still fine with it, however, that much is plain.

Is this a personal assumption, or do you have evidence to support this claim?

Why does this seem so hard to digest? just google republican support for Trump and its rather common knowledge that Trump style politics has majority support from republicans.

But isn't that Trump "Style"....saying off the cuff outrageous things. BTW Kanye West who formerly supported Trump made even worse comments that slavery was a choice. I think they call it the "Trump effect"

They certainly came out of the woodwork when he won the 2016 election
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wo ... a-n1012936

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27 Jul 2020, 11:13 pm

AKA Tehran Tom.
I hope he loses in the next election.
This is who I will vote for.
https://danwhitcongress.us/policy

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