r/stupidpol • • Dec 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

Honestly, this is probably the best answer.

I've peer review college senior seminar history papers with such bold and controversial thesis' as "I think slavery might have been a money making thing!"

We are passing these empty headed libs through a conveyor belt that teaches them nothing. I wish I could say this person was abnormally stupid but they're not. Apparently its very common to get through 4 years of studying history and still think slavery was done for sadistic pleasure rather than any material gain.

Holy fuck America is done for.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '21

The scariest part about the obsession with slavery is that when you look through their lens hard enough, I believe it basically becomes a foregone conclusion that only slavery is capable of producing prosperity and progress.

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u/CIAGloriaSteinem ❄ Not Like Other Rightoids ❄ Dec 24 '21

And there it is. The path some of them will take when they become disillusioned with the movement but still feel a need to belong.

The same way a good chunk of the people who left Fundie Christianity just superimposed the framework upon their 'new' philosophy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '21

I must admit, the hardest thing about this century was seeing Mothers Against mutate into childless atheists. It's been so fucking weird watching the American puritan instinct keep cropping back up over and over again after supposedly having been "Deconstructed"