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Are you saying nobody could have known black people are people in 1789?
mell saysThis is like saying Galieo Galilei failed science because he didn't know about quantum physics at his time. Retarded.
Are you saying nobody could have known black people are people in 1789?
See "Trumpists are the best and brightest".
/Dumb thread.
Are you saying nobody could have known black people are people in 1789?
ThreeBays saysAre you saying nobody could have known black people are people in 1789?
I've always felt it difficult to judge people who lived in a radically different time and place by standards of another, usually more modern, time and place. Especially when you may not know the details of their actions, such as their motives.
I'm under the impression that people of this era widely believed the science of the time which did things like measure the dimensions of the negro head and nose etc... and used this as "scientific fact" to prove the negro as subhuman or just different, justifying their differential treatment. This "commonly known societal norm" is very influential when most people you know believe a certain something, especially if it's "science". In fact, we see many people today still led astray by popular beliefs, especially if there's "science" to back it up.
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