Her saying this is better than her not saying anything at all—we can demand more from her but we can also benefit from her existence at the moment since she isn't staying silent
Im only looking back and history and seeing enslavement happening is all, just like people in the future will hopefully look back on today and be like "wow all those americans were enslaved and didn't even know it!" ya know? No doubt in my mind that the pharoahs wanted to make slavery look appealing as possible, all good employers incentivize hard work ethic, comraderie, overtime etc. Still enslavement imo if youre the bottom rung (the labor forcr)
I require more evidence than we currently have to believe the pharoahs werent slavers is all. I firmly believe those farmers were enslaved, and equally those that built the pyramids were enslaved as well. I dont see any reason to believe they had anything we would consider today not slavery.
I woll grant you they might not thought of themselves as slaves, but employed people today with student debt or mortgages dont think theyre slaves either, but I firmly disagree as well on that front.
My definition of slavery is a big tent. We already have terms like chattel slavery to describe the specific kind of slavery that happened in the colonial period that continues to this day and still enslaves people in places around the world away from western eyes
Humans have historically been slavers as leaders. I demand the necessary incredible evidence to believe the pharoahs were truly benevolent. I am okay with us not knowing for certain if they were horrible god-emperor slaver tyrants or just your run of the mill god-emperor slaver tyrants, but I demand the necessary evidence that they werent slaver tyrants. Humans are humans, no matter the time period, and human leaders are slavers historically
I firmly believe that every single bronze age civilization was no less morally apprehensive than what we have today with capitalism and wage slavery. Ancient egypt is no better—the pharoahs were slavers who had a happy set of cattle at their disposal as far as im concerned, just like employers do today in capitalist nations.
If you are employed and love your employer for giving you everything you need and no worries, live that life my friend, but you would be a slave. Egyptians didn't have that choice tho
The pharohs certainly did make their slaves believe they controlled the weather with their brainwashing and the priests were more than happy to help him with their astronomical studies, seeing as they made that pharoah a god by doing so and benefiting from it as such
They didnt have a choice, they were sold a lie. It's absolutely not chattel slavery, but neither is prison slavery but its all still slavery. I agree it is not chattel slavery.
Kenneth Copeland demanding you to volunteer for his benefit while he feeds and clothes you is slavery still, but the pharoah had an army and the priests on his side to subjugate everyone and literally designed around you whipping your own back so the gods wouldnt be upset at you for the bad harvest this season. All punishment was divine and good. Its slavery my friend.
lol working to build something for a god invented to keep the pharaoh in power and unquestionable in their authority to order you to build the pyramid is still slavery. Human shaped dogs are still slaves, not matter how well treated. "Believe in my divinity or die" is slavery.
There are some good apples among white people that's unquestionable. John Brown is one of the very few white people who were willing to stand between the oppressed and the oppressors. I absolutely question the effect of a few hundred extra whites doing anything to change history for the betterment of black and brown people, considering the national voting patterns since I was born in the 90s, and my personal and lived experience living in kentucky since 1998 until 2021. I grew up in poverty and set up for failure because of my white christan nationalist father. I even ate it up until I was like 13 and my frontal lobe started developing, but even I could turn out to be a leftist. What are white peoples excuses that aren't leftists yet?
Too many white people want all of those policies back to this day. Too many white people voted for it in 2024. The "silent majority" of white people need to stop staying silent while black and brown people keep dying on the streets. Remember BLM? The white people thought it was enough to put a black picture as an avatar on instagram, but those people weren't marching in Louisville for Brianna Taylor. White people need to hold white people accountable instead of letting black and brown people do all the speaking.
It wasn't until two white people died that the country is willing to start a civil war. The silent white majority finally woke up hopefully. I hope it wasn't too late for black and brown peoples' sake, because we all know White people will continue on in this country no matter what. History has shown they are willing to commit a genocide against the natives. They'll bring over slaves, start a civil war to keep their slaves, and when they lost that the next generations of white people gave them the freedom to be subjected to the worse imprisonment rate in the entire world in prisons where their work sets them free. They'll even launch nukes.
All of that just to stay on this plot of land, but what about the black and brown people—those whites aren't fighting to keep them here ya know?
Umm.. no. People were killed, white people just didn't care because the people dying weren't white and therefore it wasn't on the news. Republicans were killing citizens on the street in the name of fighting drugs and family values by killing black and brown people with hiv, crack and making abortions illegal.
This is well-known history and honestly to forget it is either a deliberate choice at worse or gross negligence at best.
With the arrival of the Reagan administration, The Heritage Foundation and other conservative foreign policy think tanks saw a political opportunity to significantly expand Carter's Afghanistan policy into a more global "doctrine", including U.S. support to anti-communist resistance movements in Soviet-allied nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. According to political analysts Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould, "it was the Heritage Foundation that translated theory into concrete policy. Heritage targeted nine nations for regime change: Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, Libya, Nicaragua, and Vietnam".
Rose-tinted glasses, I'm afraid. They may claim their hearts may have desired to respect some ideal, but the facts and evidence show that's absolutely not true. Some useful links:
Her saying this is better than her not saying anything at all—we can demand more from her but we can also benefit from her existence at the moment since she isn't staying silent