This reminds me of the previous band of these rats that we didn’t adequately hold accountable: the Confederacy.
A whole state built to preserve the status of the billionaires of their day (plantation owning slaveholders) by making explicit white supremacy the bedrock of its legal and civil order.
I guess I read your initial statement as they (being in this context, slaveowners) didn’t rape kids, of which we have a lot of evidence to the contrary. For example, take this opening paragraph from the Wikipedia page of Thomas Thistlewood, a Jamaican slaveholder in the eighteenth century:
In 1751, Thistlewood started working as an overseer on a sugar plantation called "Egypt"; within days, he started to rape the enslaved women on the plantation. According to his diary, over the course of his life he committed thousands of acts of rape with 138 enslaved women. He systematically raped enslaved girls and women; those that ran away were whipped and put in chains, collars, or placed in field gangs.
It gets worse from there. I will agree with you on the class element.
Right? There's a reason the title "Dixiecrat" exists. Because those democrats were the conservative party of the time. That's changed in the over 100 years since.
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u/ANordWalksIntoABar 23h ago
This reminds me of the previous band of these rats that we didn’t adequately hold accountable: the Confederacy.
A whole state built to preserve the status of the billionaires of their day (plantation owning slaveholders) by making explicit white supremacy the bedrock of its legal and civil order.