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Anon does genealogy (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AFAIK, in 1860 about 20% of families in the slave states owned slaves. Lots of those were probably relatively poor farmers - slaves or no, small farmers in the 19th century weren't that wealthy. Also, since when does the Christian god condemn entire family lines? Is slavery even forbidden by the bible?

[-] kek_kecske_31@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In the Jewish part of Bible there are passages about kinda inheriting sin as something you need to do something about (e.g. Cain and his lineage). But even there its not straightforward inheritance. With the New Testament in mind the post is even more bogus.

[-] GrumpyBike1020@monero.town 8 points 1 week ago

Sir, this is greentext. It’s supposed to be bogus, that’s the joke

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[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Punishing descendants is absolutely a part of the bible. Women experiencing pain during childbirth is supposedly a punishment for Eve eating the forbidden fruit.

[-] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

Yeah, she really shouldn't have listen to the snake. Women could have been giving birth like a giraffe: Just standing there, muching on a snack while the baby just falls out.

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[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Anon sounds entitled AF. Has he tried not relying on nepotism for getting ahead?

[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is probably one of those who screams DEI = Didn't Earn It...but is also pissed he wasnt born into advantages

[-] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 11 points 1 week ago

Has he tried pulling himself by the bootstraps?

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Probably. Perhaps he's realized that nepotism is a successful methodology for getting ahead in life. But maybe he should have tried being born into a more wealthy family, instead of blaming others.

[-] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 4 points 1 week ago

I am inclined to believe that he didn't choose to be born to this specific family.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

No, poor people are poor because they did something to deserve it

  • Average conservative
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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah...

I was robbed of my white privilege

Uhh, I'm pretty sure you're still white. Sounds like you don't know what white privilege actually means.

[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Least racist /b/tard.

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hear that. My grandfather was descended of German nobility. Nothing major, but he was the son of a prince. To be clear: a complete nobody even when German nobility was still a thing pre-WW1. After the war, they pretty much abolished all that in a revolution.

But basically, if I go back four generations, we owned a ‘castle’ somewhere. Meanwhile, I’m solidly in the peasant class.

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Good news, I hear you can probably get a castle for fairly cheap. Only problem is you have to maintain it.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

From whom? Was it a little gnome peeking out from behind a mushroom?

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Quite a few countries, Italy for example, will either sell you a castle for dirt cheap or just give it to you, as long as you promise to restore and maintain it.

Which is, to be clear, an absolute pain in the ass, since those castles have very strict restrictions about how to repair and upgrade them, materials and even companies you’re allowed to use, etc. Not to mention they’re a bitch to heat in the winter.

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[-] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

Oh wait till you hear about my family.

My family was French Aristocracy that faked their deaths and moved to America to avoid the French Revolution

Then they owned slaves, but the deeds to their plantations and land and shit were burned in a slave revolt and they lost it all.

Then they helped found the Klan and became poor white trash.....

We could have been rich and not lived in America. But no we had to become poor AND racist.

[-] Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Don't think they weren't racist before moving....

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know, often in these green text posts I have a takeaway that at least attempts sympathy toward the anon.

Fuckin nope, not here.

I would say its so hilariously pathetic that its a bit, but I've met people that are unironically like this.

Anon, you only exist because Sherman didn't finish the job.

He should have.

Here, a song for you before you meet your God:

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

while God is marching on.

Oh, imagine a world where that describes current day 'Republican Jesus'.

My idea of a 'white man's burden' is that its our job to rid the planet of all these melanin deprived slavers and 'ante bellum nostalgics'.

Its really the least we could do, at this point.


EDIT:

... you know who I can trace my lineage back to?

Father's father's father's... etc, was a goddamn miscreant, some kind of petty criminal that got shipped out of I think somewhere in or near Wales, to Vrigina, in the 1720s.

His sons fought in the Revolutionary War, some died in it, some didn't.

One of those sons had his own sons... one of them... a Reverend.

A Reverend that moved out of Vrigina, out to Kansas in the 1850s.

Where he founded an anti-slavery Baptist church.

Around which, he helped to build a small town.

A small town where an escaped slave from Missouri was able to purchase his own land, work his own land, and from the proceeds of it, buy the official freedom of himself and his family, before the Emancipation Proclamation and/or 13th Amendment would make that last step unnecessary.

Now I can't say with 100% complete certainty that this Reverend ancestor of mine ever met John Brown... but uh, given a fairly small number of anti-slavery Reverends running around this particular part of Kansas, in the exact same time frame as John Brown... and that they were both part of the general Free-State movement...

... seems more likely than not.

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I thought it was a joke. Rephrase it a bit and it would be a funny standup routine. I guess anon should have emphasized that they didn't support slavery (if they did) but it is a funny concept to ask how they fumbled the bag so hard.

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[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Be family

Need Slaves

No money

Remeber slaves are literally slaves and cost nothing

Get slaves

I don't think you have to be rich to own slaves.

Edit: Some of ya'll don't understand what shitposting is.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

If you’re talking about the US, you are incredibly misinformed. Selling slaves for money was an insanely lucrative business. It’s not called “The Transatlantic Slave Here You Can Just Have Some”

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[-] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You do have to feed, keep them healthy, clothe and shelter them along with you and your family - plus they did cost money to buy, they don't spontaneously appear. You'd need a modicum of wealth to afford and keep one. Not much, but some.

[-] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 week ago

slaves were a one time purchase, workers were subscriptions

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[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

‘Curse you Eli Whitney!’

  • Anon maybe idk
[-] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 1 week ago

Any wealth inheritance has been divided amongst an unknown number of heirs for the last, what 5 generations? 7? That shit's long gone.

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[-] iocase@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Owning slaves was like owning a tractor. Your ancestors werent rich they were just lazy. Like you and your dad, who's a Wendy's manager at 57.

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