Slavery is bad, actually. This may at first seem like an uncontroversial statement, until you dare utter it in the context of suggesting that slavery was not an economic benefit to the rise of Western civilization and that it would have been better off without it.
This video takes a dive into the poor reasoning behind the wacky world of far left pseudo-history, the 1619 project, and the breadtubers who unwittingly simp for pro slavery positions that they would ordinarily reject if they actually understood them.
00:00 Intro
03:22 Slavery is not an economic boon
14:35 So who did build this country then?
24:06 Muh Reparations
33:50 Slavery is bad, actually
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