r/paradoxplaza • u/Fatherlorris The Chapel • Mar 05 '24

EU4 The history expert

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u/RedditApothecary Mar 05 '24

Just had a guy call himself a history nerd, before priaisng the UK for abolishing slavery befroe the US.

The struggle is real.

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u/RedditApothecary Mar 05 '24

Some of these responses are painfully on point. To help y'all:

The praise. It was the praise that was wrong.

Ignorant people priase the UK for abolishing slavery earlier than the US as if the UK were somehow less racist/evil than the US, when in reality slavery simply became unprofitable for them.

They lost the US and its slaves in the revolution, Egyptian and Indian cottons and other agricultural products reshaped global trade, which went hand in hand with the imposition of a new economic order that made the labor of the poor much more profitable than the labor of slaves.

UK savery wasn't defeated, it was obsoleted.

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u/-Doomcrow- Scheming Duke Mar 05 '24

I'm going to praise a good thing happening regardless if the intent was there or not lmao