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Joined another group. My barriers are being violated. Groups suck. That means i suck. First it was sunday school and now this.

One point in re to slavery. No question there is a shitload of propaganda masquerading as science that was used to justify slavery, injustice, discrimination and every form of oppression. The pseudo science infiltrates the greater culture and is passed on like other memes.

On the other hand slavery is very human. I suppose groups of people who did not have it are the exception. Obviously the ancient Egyptians, Greeks of antiquity, the Roman empire come to mind immediately. But it was all over and a natural consequence of war and the formation of kingdoms or dominant tribes. No doubt there was as the Brittanica article alluded to a marriage of convenience in wedding pseudo science with exploitation-a grand justification for doing unspeakable acts. The Christ Killing Jews were being victimized long before modern pseudo scientific propaganda fueled the holocaust.

Slavery was endemic in Africa. Even Jamaica which was a key stopping point in the Atlantic slave trade had Brown peoples who enslaved Black peoples. India and its caste system was de facto slavery. There was slavery in the Americas. The peoples who never had slavery probably have environmental/cultural factors that come into play but slavery is just a sickening human thing made much worse by racist propaganda.