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Land of the free (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works to c/cunkposting@lemmy.world

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's from the 1800s, when the US was the global capital of chattel slavery.

The Nazis were inspired by the US, by the way. The concentration camps were inspired by the reservation system. There were holocausts in the Americas before Hitler was even born.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lebensraum is just manifest destiny but scarier cause it's in German

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's true.

I'm terrified just reading it.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thanks for adding a time period - would you happen to have an author of the quote as well? :)

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a pretty famous speech given by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who was asked to give a July 4th address. He escaped slavery and became a self-taught abolitionist, suffragette, radical reconstruction politician, preacher, and author.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

thank you! That is an interesting character to read about. Makes me despise people all the more (if that was possible) who thought / think that they can own other people's lives.