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2024-04-29 Government Corruption

Historian: European countries do not like to remember that their “garden” was built by slaves

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Posted by badanov 2024-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 badonov – I would argue that slavery is so important to the development of modern humans that it was actually the impetus that began the Neolithic Period, around 12,000 years ago. Here there began large farming, and it became mega-farming by the the time you had writing, around 6,000 years ago.

I offer as my only evidence (and not even bringing up the Romans), and something that Zawi Hawass would vehemently reject in the National Geographic, that young Egyptian men would gladly give up their bodies for a short vacation and a lifetime of arthritis in order to please God, but all that seems to be kept a bit quiet.

Posted by Fairbanks 2024-04-29 06:20|| 2024-04-29 06:20|| Front Page Top

..... but all that seems to be kept a bit quiet.

Yes, today we have "slavery" of a different sort. Still involves very limited ownership and great sums of financial gain.

The Colosseums still pack in the viewers, as they did in 80 AD.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-29 06:31|| 2024-04-29 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Here there began large farming, and it became mega-farming by the the time you had writing

Not written by I.

Posted by badanov 2024-04-29 06:56|| 2024-04-29 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Big government will eventually get their hands around Mom & Pop businesses and family farms, you'll see. An 'equitable' distribution of land and resources is a government domain.

[sarc off]

You will one day own nothing and be happy.
~ World Economic Forum, summarising an essay written by Danish politician Ida Auken.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-29 07:05|| 2024-04-29 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 There has always been slavery. The Anti-Slavery movement was founded on classical Christian - Western Civilization nations from the 18th Century. No where else. Here, I thought 'they' despised White Supremacy.

The word slave is derived from Slav. The Byzantines (Eastern Roman Empire) captured so many Slavic 'migrants' during a period of armed incursions that the term entered Western languages.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-29 07:22|| 2024-04-29 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 And let's not fool ourselves for as long as the government has control over our bodies with, for example, forced vaccinations, then we remain slaves.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-29 08:36|| 2024-04-29 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I always associate the slave trade with Moslems. Maybe it’s just me.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-04-29 09:43|| 2024-04-29 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I grew up in New Hampshire. By this 'logic' I stole land from the Algonquins.

Posted by Raj 2024-04-29 10:19|| 2024-04-29 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Live Free or Die, baby. Then again, there's Governor Sununu.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-29 10:21|| 2024-04-29 10:21|| Front Page Top

#10 The Russian editorialist has forgotten that Russia was built on the back of serfs, who differ from slaves only in that they were not imported from elsewhere, could not be bought and sold, nor ordered to marry. But otherwise they were tied firmly to the estate where they were born and worked on the order of their feudal lord.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-29 10:27|| 2024-04-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Slavery's only a drag when ~~whites~~ white westerners do it. All other instances are just quaint cultural customs.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-29 10:34|| 2024-04-29 10:34|| Front Page Top

#12 @#11 - And if I recall correctly, indentured servitude in Russia was only done away with in the 1860s.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-04-29 10:56|| 2024-04-29 10:56|| Front Page Top

#13 I notice that Spain & Portugal - the European countries most heavily engaged in colonialism & importation of African slaves to their colonies - are among the poorest countries in Western Europe (only Ireland is poorer).

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-29 12:35|| 2024-04-29 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Linsux is crushing it today. I wonder how much damage was done by the boutique pro-russia page being down?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-29 16:27|| 2024-04-29 16:27|| Front Page Top

#15 Crap. Moohamheads himself was a sex slaver. Islam was built entirely on slaves.

White western guilt is for self loathing racist. The woke KKK.

Posted by Woodrow 2024-04-29 19:09|| 2024-04-29 19:09|| Front Page Top

#16 #9 I stole land from the Algonquins.

Say what?

Posted by Jomons Tingle6895 2024-04-29 21:58|| 2024-04-29 21:58|| Front Page Top

#17 man koran

The Mohammedan plan and instruction,
Divine, though of random construction;
A heckuva book
For the head-hacking crook...
[TO SERVE INFIDELS: Death and Destruction]

Posted by Jomons Tingle6895 2024-04-29 22:03|| 2024-04-29 22:03|| Front Page Top

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