Refute Political Memes Here

You might think it true that the news is scarier now than when television was first popularized some sixty years ago.

But because our world is in fact safer now than its ever been, this perception may be due to increased sensationalism in tv news if not rosy retrospection of a mythical golden age.

 

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Sometimes these things are so stupid they refute themselves.

 

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You do understand that slavery was an industry right?
That it wasn't just owning slaves that made people money but the things that slaves produced?
The fact that the White House was built by independent contractors who were slave owners is kind of a good reason that people have issues with the whole "well not that many people owned slaves' idea.
Plenty of people were able to take advantage of the labor the provided beyond just the owners and an entire culture was built on owning them.
In fact an entire war was fought about the right to own them, which pretty much proves how important keeping them was to both the people who ran things and the society in general.
Was it a relatively small group in total sure but only 26% of Americans own a firearms and you could easily say that our culture is focused on them.
All that aside, I think most black people have enough horrible things happening right now to be pissed off about that slavery is kind of a dull roar in the background.

 

No one can reasonably blame you for the actions of others, especially actions committed before you came into being. But you can be held responsible for how you respond to past injustices today, and spreading messages that attempt to trivialize the extent and repercussions of America's history of slavery is a blameworthy behavior.

Here's a comprehensive look at slave ownership statistics from the 1860 census: 1860 Census Results

As you can see, the percent of slave state families who owned slaves and the percent of slaves in the total populations of slave states are more meaningful statistics than the percent of slave owners (because four million slaves were owned by only four hundred thousand wealthy men but served millions of other people through working for the families and business of those men).

Using these metrics, we can see that almost half of the families in the Southern states of Mississippi and South Carolina owned slaves, and those slaves accounted for over half of their total respective populations (because most slave-owning families held multiple slaves).

The bottom row of the table sums up each value from all the listed states and indicates in the rightmost column that slaves made up 13% percent of the US population. That's very close to the current demographic value for Black Americans. Is that made insignificant because the select wealthy men living mostly in the Deep South who officially owned the four million American slaves represented 1.6% of the total US population of men, women, and children in free states, slave states, and former territories?

 

Yes. The rightmost column of the census data table on the page I linked indicates that most states in the Deep South had slave populations in 1860 of about half the total. Alabama 45%, Florida and Georgia both 44%, Louisiana 47%, Mississippi 55%, and South Carolina 57%.

 

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As someone who was married to a teacher I can say without reservation that this meme is complete bullshit.
Kids aren't allowed to curse and will get in all kinds of trouble for it.
Kids can pray all they want, they just can't disturb classes.
If they want to pray at lunch, no one cares or, like Muslim students, go to a separate room to pray at certain times, nobody cares.
So yeah, bullshit meme is bullshit.

 

I for one would rather students be free to curse than required to pray.

 

One place out of how many schools out there,bet it's not like that everywhere.
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That was in NJ, my daughter is a teacher here in AK and she would tell you the same thing.

 

The above quotation mischaracterizes gun control as "taking guns away from legal gun owners", when it might be better described as "imposing regulations on gun purchase and possession for all persons and prosecuting all who violate them". I previously debunked the claim that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" on page 3 of this thread. I'll reiterate here: According to the 2014 FBI report A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the US between 2000 and 2013, 13% of the 160 identified incidents were ended when unarmed citizens restrained the shooters, while only 3% were ended after armed citizens exchanged gunfire with the shooters.

And I have refuted the other related claim that "criminals aren't fazed by gun control" in the Random Thoughts topic in response to this post.

 

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A lot of Americans who were loyal to the King went back to England or fled to Canada.
And the there are the Confedarados in Brazil

Confederados - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So yeah, the meme is pretty much bullshit.