• Cethin
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    5 months ago

    Yep, and she constantly gets made fun of for it.

      • @Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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        -45 months ago

        I don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.

        • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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          115 months ago

          Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.

          • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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            5 months ago

            I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.

            Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.

        • @Zink@programming.dev
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          25 months ago

          Here in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.