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Old 02-06-2020, 06:58 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Can you diversify slaves without getting into trouble? Not sure what you would call it, maybe reverse appropriation? By allowing black slavers and white slaves or black slavers having black slaves you are evilizing the victims. You should, because any slaver is evil independent of ethnicity.
You can't because of todays tribalized political culture.

And you shouldn't because slavery is a primal element of the human experience going back to the first tribal pre-agrarian culture. Does anybody think the Neanderthal genes we all bear, to one extent or another, were acquired in a quiet romantic dinner? For that matter, latter day Neanderthals bore spiens genes from an earlier sapiens wave.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...neandertal-dna

Slaves have always been with us, whether called slaves, serfs, helots, indentured servants, forced laborers, or whatever. And there are nore people enslaved today than at any time in history.

https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/

There was a recent twitter storm over a fantasy YA book in a fantasy world that featured an anti-slavery theme but didn't conform to the...accepted model (?)... so the online torches and pitchforks came out.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...ce-controversy

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-new...budding-career

So no, you can't "diversify" slavery narratives because you either conform to the "accepted" meme or are historically accurate and thus, non-diverse by the current yardstick.

One meme to rule them all.
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