GOP presidential candidate draws renewed criticism after suggesting slavery helped African Americans develop skills such as being a blacksmith
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What servitude would DeSantis need to be forced into, to develop skills such as basic human empathy?
Probably best to just get rid of him entirely.
Let’s give him an all-expense-paid trip with OceanGate
Desanctimonius…
Some presidential candidates benefit from being punched repeatedly in the face. Let’s not demonize presidential candidate face punching so quickly either.
It may improve the appearance of some of the presidential candidates. We really need to both sides the presidential face punching issue.
Everytime someone suggests this, I’d suggest them to go back a few hundred years in history and live the life of all the people back then.
If they then still have the courage to suggest it,then I’ll watch.
And people said “it can’t get more stupid than trump.”
The guy must’ve been inspired by Django.
He didn’t watch it til the end.
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The word benefit and slavery should only be used together when talking about slaveowners and the 1700s-1800s US economy.
That’s called adapting to your circumstances.
Funny, that’s actually the argument most often heard in Germany when people want to bring back mandatory military/civil service. Yes, it’s slavery, but it’ll teach you stuff!
This shit is literally doublethink straight out of 1984. And I thought the book was hyperbolic.
We also are approaching the point where we will have ‘novel-writing machines.’ Except ours will also make movies.
What personal benefits do these people think slaves had/have?
Yeah, like cooking the parts of animals their slavers threw out. How beneficial!
I guess there’s a Tucker Carlson sized hole of hatred that the other anchors are clamoring to fill
Sooo… they did benefit from slavery, and also didn’t benefit from slavery? He said both things in the same breath…
Obviously slavery is purely wrong.
Doublethink is a requirement to be a Fox News host.
DeSantis doubles down on his estimate that his electoral chances really don’t depend on the votes of anyone who isn’t a doctrinaire white-supremacist.
So ceiling is 30% and with Trump present his ceiling is 4%.
What if you’re not white and vote for him, or if you’re white and not a SuPrEmAcIsT? I’m not voting for him but I am curious on where the answer stands with these two scenarios.
If you saw a house burning down and you did nothing to stop the flames, wouldn’t you say that that person wanted the house to burn down?
If you are not actively against white supremacists, you are allowing them to spread and flourish. It’s like a weed. If you don’t pull it, it’s going to take over your beds.
Some republicans aren’t hateful bigots. Some of them are ignorant morons.
I can agree to this, you make a very good point. I’m neither dem or repub I just like to ask questions.
You sound like that dumb fuck Alex Jones.
People who aren’t into white-supremacy are not the target audience of his imagined fond recollections of some ancestor’s plantation.
Fair enough point.
If you watch someone piss in a milk carton and then offer you a bowl of cereal the next morning, and you accept, it’s because you’re either into it or really, really out of it.
I like this answer best.
Well this didn’t have to do with either and didn’t happen so I can’t really respond to this fake scenario.
FFS, use your fucking brain, man!
Fake scenarios like asking ‘what if I support a bigot without being a bigot?’
Nobody expects you to understand a metaphor. It’s for the rest of us to lol at.
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Lol
why the fuck are you voting for someone who made his own private militarized police force to protect his interests like a stereotypical cold war era dictator
If the GOP candidate is so enthusiastic to extol the benefits of being a slave, why has he not volunteered himself into slavery so that, he too, could gain these benefits he’s claiming enslaved people received?
I’m sure black people couldn’t possibly have developed these skills on their own terms if they were free. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Can we get a triple down for the hat trick?
Ok, putting aside the disgusting stupidity of this claim for a second…
… what exactly is the political play here? I just can’t see how this is a smart argument or a winning strategy.
Desantis is vying for political points that he can use nationally. He and his campaign think it’ll score them points that might help them prove to be more “Trumpy” than other candidates.
Honestly, while it wouldn’t totally surprise me to have Republicans sink to an even lower low… I’m just not sure that there’s a large contingent of national voters for who “actually slavery was pretty great for black people” is an important issues or a winning message.
I feel like it’s ultimately suburban voters who tip the scale in a general election, and defending slavery isn’t probably the main issue on their mind. And for the GOP primary, there’s no chance that he pulls anything meaningful away from the Trump cult with this shit. It just seems so stupid.
You’d be entirely shocked at how racist suburban voters can be, and how open a lot of them have become in recent years.
It’s all about pushing the needle and normalizing this shit. They can do whatever they want in Florida so they test drive their facist ideologies there.
I don’t think Desantis is being tooled as a viable candidate, just a useful ton of dead weight to push the scales further right.
I don’t think this, in particular, is about the campaign. It’s about ideology. I don’t think DeSantis is a grifter that only cares about getting elected or getting people to like him (unlike Trump). I think he is an actual pseudo-fascist. He is implementing all these changes to reshape Florida in his image. In this example, his goal is to have kids to grow up thinking all the poor black people are poor because they are not good workers or people, which is probably what he believes, or worse.
If you can only use your skills by being enslaved, you didn’t benefit. Fucking racist prick.
If someone is a slave, there is no incentive to learn new skills.
They don’t need “incentive”. All they need is complete and utter loss of hope and humanity so that they eventually realize they should just “make the best of it”.
That or the threat of beatings.
There was a picture of a Congolese man who was forced to work on a Dutch rubber plantation with his entire family. This man was staring at the severed hand of his 5 year old daughter. She lost her hand because she failed to meet her quota. If that man suddenly became the most productive slave on the plantation… was that a good thing? Or was he forced into an inhumane situation that is absolutely inexcusable?
Farm work is a useful skill. The incentive was a whip.
Parents of the uvalde kids benefited too. Their house hold cost of living went down.
Fuck America and those that still support all the fake life rapist bullshit that it builds.
