• dogbert@lemmy.zipOP
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    7 days ago

    Considering Americans used to eat black people and fought a whole war so they could keep doing that…

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      6 days ago

      Eat? I’m sorry, what? American here that really wishes I wasn’t but eating people was never a “thing” and we definitely never fought a war for cannibalism. Not saying we wouldn’t, we’ve fought wars for less, but never for that.

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        6 days ago

        Half the country (millions of people) that was cool with eating black people…

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            6 days ago

            Slavery didn’t end in the civil war, it was nationalized. Go back and read the 14th amendment, it made slavery legal in every state even the ones that had outlawed it.

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              6 days ago

              I’m aware. However, in the context of this conversation, I’d still rather be in an an American prison than an Israeli.

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            6 days ago

            Is that truly what you believe? Half of America just wanted slaves to be free so they fought a war over it? Be serious…

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              6 days ago

              Maybe choose a different word than eat. White Texans to this day mostly eat BBQ beef because pork is “black people food” so they would definitely never eat black people.

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                  6 days ago

                  Woodard examines the sexual nature of documented instances of flesh-eating and details the various manners of consumption whereby Black Americans were metaphorically or actually eaten. In the book, Woodard defines consumption as a range of parasitic practices, including institutionalized hunger, seasoning rituals, and sexual modes of consumption.

                  None of those are, nor have ever been mainstream. The entire Confederacy/South wasn’t eating black people and certainly not the whole country.

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                    6 days ago

                    Yeah, eating black people was mostly done by slave owners. You thought the poors were getting a slice? Lmao.