"The Key Facts About Slavery That the Left Conveniently Ignores." - Granite Grok

“The Key Facts About Slavery That the Left Conveniently Ignores.”

“Everybody does it” is no excuse, but not everybody fights a horrible Civil War over it, then constitutionally elevates former slaves to full citizenship.”

SlaveryYes, were there slaves in the Colonies at the start of the Revolutionary War?  Were there slaves when the Constitution was written?  Of course there were and no conservative would argue the opposite (even as the Left now has migrated from calling everyone that disagrees with them from Birchers to TEA Partiers to extremists and now, to fit their latest narrative, White Supremacists).  But it seems that in reading about the college campus rampages and watching the “man in the street” interviews, it seems that our young’uns seem to think that ONLY the US had slavery in our history.  Why?

They aren’t taught actual history – the Leftist Academy conveniently leaves that out.  Makes it easier, I guess, to undermine the Founders with that “old white rich slave-owners” which, in turn, is meant to discredit the Constitution.  Which, in turn, makes it easier to “turn” a coupla few generations:

Slavery is by no means peculiar, odd, or unusual. It was common among ancient peoples such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Armenians, and many others.

Large numbers of Christians were enslaved during the Ottoman wars in Europe. White slaves were common in Europe from the Dark Ages to the Middle Ages. It was only after A.D. 1600 that Europeans joined with Arabs and Africans and started the Atlantic slave trade.

As David P. Forsythe wrote in his book, “The Globalist,” “The fact remained that at the beginning of the 19th century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom.”

While slavery constitutes one of the grossest encroachments on human liberty, it is by no means unique or restricted to the Western world or United States, as many liberal academics would have us believe.

Much of their indoctrination of our young people, at all levels of education, paints our nation’s Founders as racist adherents to slavery, but the story is not so simple.

But it is taught “that simply” – all I have to do is direct you to the commentary (screams?) of the Left that was displayed in all its rage after Trump gave his speech in Hungary praising Western Civilization.  Gosh, what a self-loathing fest that turned out to be.  And we wonder why the younger Millennials are less patriotic than we more senior generations.  If you are taught that nothing is good about the US except for its turning to a more Socialist / Marxist society, why WOULD you be patriotic?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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