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[viper37]

Crystal Elaine Prebola
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Slavery used to be a normal throughout the world. America was the ONLY country that ended it!

Wait... What??? 

[Eddie Teach]

Only in America is one truly free. 

[Syt]

America is the only country to abolish slavery. And they did it voluntarily, peacefully, and without incident.

[Maladict]

I kind of want to get a US flag to put up on certain occasions (4th of July for example), but these days that might be seen as rather provocative.

I'm putting it up on the 4th. Even here I expect people will realize what date it is, and that it's not a political statement.

[grumbler]

The only country that ended it... *sigh*

You act shocked...shocked!... that the people who write and spread these are morons.  Phrases like "used to be a normal throughout" don't scream "genius."

[Admiral Yi]

Perhaps it means the US is the only country that fought a war to forcibly end slavery.

[grumbler]

Perhaps it means the US is the only country that fought a war to forcibly end slavery.

Sometimes a moron is just a moron.

[DGuller]

I can't help but feel like we're playing right into the hands of those creating this firehose of falsehoods by picking apart individual falsehoods in great detail.  We're dealing with a zerg rush of falsehoods here, not carefully targeted attack of sophisticated lies.

[Tamas]

I can't help but feel like we're playing right into the hands of those creating this firehose of falsehoods by picking apart individual falsehoods in great detail.  We're dealing with a zerg rush of falsehoods here, not carefully targeted attack of sophisticated lies.

I agree. Somebody posts some utterly false inane shit, and you guys go through analysing like it was high literature.

[PDH]

We have been flinging poop here since day 1.  Don't tell us how to do it.

[Admiral Yi]

It's a fun exercise to discuss which statements are out and out lies, which are simply spin, and which make reasonable points.  It's fun to discuss what makes them lies, spin, and reasonable points.  You don't have to take part if you don't want to, but I certainly don't feel I'm playing into anyone's hands.

[The Brain]

I feel like playing in my own hands.

[Razgovory]

Perhaps it means the US is the only country that fought a war to forcibly end slavery.

I'm fairly certain that isn't true either.  I've seen variation of this idea, mostly "White People ended slavery".  That is at least true in the sense that many white people did fight to end slavery.  I think the last country to abolish slavery was Mauritania, though they have ended slavery several times and it doesn't seem to stick.

Typically slavery ends when the people owning the slaves decide to stop.

[Zanza]

Perhaps it means the US is the only country that fought a war to forcibly end slavery.

The Haitian Revolution comes to mind as an earlier example of a war fought to forcibly end slavery.

[Admiral Yi]

The Haitian Revolution comes to mind as an earlier example of a war fought to forcibly end slavery.

Good one.