thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 27 days ago"my genocidal settler colony is totally different from that genocidal settler colony"hexbear.netimagemessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1115arrow-down1image"my genocidal settler colony is totally different from that genocidal settler colony"hexbear.netthelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 27 days agomessage-square44linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·26 days agoIn at least some fairness, many of them thought slavery was an ultimately doomed institution. And they might even have been right, at the time. Then Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
minus-squareClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoEli Whitney inventing the cotton gin like “Wow this machine is so efficient this will surely be the final nail in the coffin of the horrific institution of slavery!”
In at least some fairness, many of them thought slavery was an ultimately doomed institution. And they might even have been right, at the time.
Then Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin like “Wow this machine is so efficient this will surely be the final nail in the coffin of the horrific institution of slavery!”