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

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Be thankful that some of us are not expressing our full outrage on this website.

What Cotton actually said in the article does not warrant the amount of feverish outrage that is on this thread.
To quote Senator Cotton: "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction".
The Main Stream Media is hoping you'll just read their headline condemning Cotton and not actually find out what he said.

Thank goodness he didn’t get appointed to head of the CIA or we’d have Peeping Tom Cotton.
He’s just an awful person.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.altern ... otton/amp/

Sadly for him, the "Founding Fathers" never said that.Sadly for you, what he actually said was a lie.

Since the article proves that the MSM is taking his words out of context to create the impression that he is a racist, shouldn't your ire be directed at the MSM for trying to deceive you?

You go ahead and blame the Media; I'll go ahead and blame the lying Sack o'Shite which is Senator Tom Cotton.

Wheres the citation for your comments?

Facts are irrelevant. Praise the Ministry of Truth for giving us our Tuesday morning Immanuel Goldstine!

Cotton mouth.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytime ... y.amp.html

Two absolutely terrifying words.
President Cotton.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... terrifying

You gotta let go of hate man, Hate will consume you.

You gotta get over the facts that I hate racism, and that I find racists contemptible as well.

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First and foremost, please avoid slurring groups of people for their views - for example, saying that all GOP supporters are sociopaths.

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^ But can we refer to Sociopaths as Republicans?

The claim being levied against Cotton is that he called slavery a necessary evil. You have conveniently included the exact section where he does so. He doesn’t use the quote (real or imagined) to illustrate a point he disagrees with, or even simply to show that the opinion exists. He says “as the Founding Fathers said...”, which tells us that he agrees with it. It’s pretty basic syntax.

Now Cotton isn’t saying “slavery is actually good” or anything like that, but he did say it was a necessary evil, just like everyone is reporting.

Instead of being angry at Cotton, here is some current real world stuff to be outraged by:

Together, these 10 countries – China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, the Philippines and Russia – comprise 60% of all the people living in modern slavery, as well as more than half the world's population, according to the Global Slavery Index.Feb 25, 2019
Wikipedia
Slavery exist TODAY and its NOT the Republicans enslaving people.

That’s whataboutery. The existence of slavery in other countries doesn’t detract from the shittiness of the Senator from Arkansas.

There is plenty of slavery in America too. The same report you cited estimates that 400,000 people are held in modern slavery in the USA.

It should be noted that the GSI’s methodology has been criticised: https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/i ... ew/228/216

And of course, in the US slavery is still legal if you are imprisoned. American lawmakers of many different stripes have turned a blind eye. Some have pushed for reform, but not enough.