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On Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 3:42:39 PM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
> On 2021 Apr 24, , dsi1 wrote
> (in >):
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> > You mean folks with limited options in life are different from people who are
> > kidnapped and shipped off to a new land to be bought, sold, and worked like
> > animals? Oh wow! That's brilliant! Thank you, thank you!

>
> The thing to consider is whether you would exist at all without familial
> migration. If slavery, at some point, means that you exist, wouldn´t that
> be a good thing for you?
> Somewhere, in every ancestral tree, there´s a slave or fifty.


That's just an easy rationalization to swallow because it wasn't you and your family that were slaves. My guess is that if I didn't exist, I wouldn't care about not existing.