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Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by AlotOfReading »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #12
zozbot234 wrote: post #8

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North American natives were exterminating and enslaving each other long before the Europeans got there. Nobody has anything to be proud of.

The term "slave" encompasses a lot of wildly different kinds of unfree labor. The racialized system most people think of from transatlantic slavery is a very recent thing.

Nothing resembling that was widespread in precolumbian North America. The earliest similar systems I'm aware of took root in the 17th and 18th centuries, well into the early colonial period.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by huherto »

Eighteen years here. I am not American but I think this is a holiday that we can all celebrate as reminder that we should be grateful for what and specially for who we have, independently what we don't have.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by VWWHFSfQ »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #43
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

North American natives were exterminating and enslaving each other long before the Europeans got there. Nobody has anything to be proud of.

The term "slave" encompasses a lot of wildly different kinds of unfree labor. The racialized system most people think of from transatlantic slavery is a very recent thing. Nothing resembling that was widespread in precolumbian North America. The earliest similar systems I'm aware of took root in the 17th and 18th centuries, well into the early colonial period.

Research what the Iroquois did to the Huron people, what the Apache did to the Pueblos, and what the Aztecs did to everybody.

The continent what a slaughter show for thousands of years.

Re: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 »

^^7

cheers to all you glorious bastards. i disagree with you on most things and quibble over pettiest crap, but know it is all in good fun. we are prolly in the weirdest point in computer history and get to see it make it through ( or not.. either is fine ). its a secret, but those annual affirtation are one of my favorite traditions.

here is to all the fun convos yet to come.

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