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redshift95 t1_is8og92 wrote

Reply to comment by HelloMalt in Plantation Street will remain; Worcester council ends UMass Chan bid for name change by HRJafael

Massachusetts was the first State to legally abolish slavery, by 1783. Almost a century before the emancipation proclamation. It didn’t have plantations and was the epicenter of the American abolitionist movement. Probably the weakest possible state to try this type of performative nonsense.

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HelloMalt t1_is8xmo7 wrote

it didn't need plantations because it made plenty of profit processing the cotton made by slavery. you aren't exempt from your own history.

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TheTrainCrazyMan t1_isao7ys wrote

Every country in the world has had some experience with slavery. "You aren't exempt" is a argument designed to guilt trip

  • cotton processing in massachusetts was concentrated along the merrimack river (coincidentally where Worcester isnt)
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HelloMalt t1_isav95e wrote

it's a guilt trip because america is guilty of genocide

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TheTrainCrazyMan t1_isi5eh8 wrote

And so was every other nation in the world's history. Your point? How do you think history progresses?

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HelloMalt t1_isjltdj wrote

every other nation in the world's history is not guilty of genocide. you are a silly fellow.

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