• SadArtemis
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    28 days ago

    The reason why wypipo stopped “believing” (or rather, telling themselves- blatant denial) that slaves liked what they were experiencing, you mean.

    Not even back then, were they quite that ignorant or brainwashed. The average white person then, as it still remains now, would have been horrified at even the prospect of receiving a fraction of the abuse and dehumanization they inflicted on blacks (or other non-white peoples).

    Most wypipo then were willfully deluded, and also just plain evil. That’s the simple facts of it- they weren’t outright braindead (such narratives, that they genuinely thought slaves “liked” their conditions, paints them in a better light than they deserve).

    • GlueBear [they/them]
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      28 days ago

      Oh I know. They were and are always going to cynically fake ignorance of their actions. Liars once, liars always.