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NotANeocon

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3. I really get so fed up with this bullshit version of "history".
Sun Aug 1, 2021, 05:36 PM
Aug 2021

The idea that Canada and Britain were just as evil as the USA where slavery is concerned is nothing but codswollop.

YES there was slavery in former societies and there still is slavery in some societies outside the Americas. However Canada and Britain did NOT build an economic system based on the possession of slaves to act as free labour and cause the collapse of the economy by insisting that slaves be treated as people. Just name some of the "famous" plantations in Canada or Britain.

Canadians WERE NOT and ARE NOT the same as those south of 49 no matter how you attempt to rewrite history. The difference in the history of the two nations is similar to the treatment of slaves on the island of Hispanola and this is the reason that racism is still an essential part of US society - both historic AND contemporary.

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