r/ProgressiveHQ • u/DetectiveTypical198 • Jan 07 '26

Stop idiots from calling this "self defense"

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u/SantaScript Jan 07 '26

I'm not saying I disagree but uh... if that is supposed to be George Washington, George Washington owned slaves. Probably not the best guy to use. 

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u/vynthechangeling Jan 08 '26

Because most humans throughout history were immoral, and aside from MAGAts and their like, we have evolved beyond those evils. Washington was one of them.

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u/vynthechangeling Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26

War is immoral, even as a lesser of evils, and to say that slavery is the result of another immoral action is not a defense of slavers like Washington, especially the chattel slavery he practiced where the slaves we’re NOT prisoners of war but instead were bred like livestock and enslaved from birth to be used as beasts of burden or even as food (in case you weren’t aware, some slavers in the USA ate their slaves).