The racists in IGN must be crying buckets :)

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    Do I put a value difference between the Atlantic slave trade/chattel slavery and the sexual slavery of the Vietnamese women, or Korean women? No I guess I don’t! Every version of slavery is both abhorrent and devalues human life, and a well kept slave is functionally still a slave.

    I feel like you just ignored any examples that do meet your criteria cause you desperately want Western slavery to somehow be worse than Eastern slavery.

    Honestly just sounds like exceptionalism to me. Again, sounds like you are a racist.

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      Do I put a value difference between the Atlantic slave trade/chattel slavery and the sexual slavery of the Vietnamese women, or Korean women? No I guess I don’t! Every version of slavery is both abhorrent and devalues human life, and a well kept slave is functionally still a slave.

      Lol, so the amount of people, the amount of violence, the amount of time it’s practiced, and for what reasons are all meaningless to you?

      So if you had a choice of being from Africa and taken from their homeland and forced into perpetual slavery in the US, where your children could be whipped to death in front of you, or sold down the river for no reason. Or you could be in indebted servitude to a rich family in the tang dynasty who used you as a doorman, but you still got to go home to your family who weren’t enslaved at the end of the day.

      Both choices would be equal for you? That’s just a false equivocation that is willfully ignorant to the actual human suffering that’s occurred.

      This is just as bad as people claiming that the Irish had it just as bad in America as people in chattel slavery in the South because they were both technically “enslaved”.

      you desperately want Western slavery to somehow be worse than Eastern slavery.

      Because it’s not even close… The chattel slavery that occurred in the Americas is widely regarded by historians as some of the worst forms of slavery in recorded history. By what ever criteria you are ranking it, whether it be by volume, lack of rights, deaths, or in human suffering.

      This is not a controversial or even drastic claim. The technology and social hierarchy that allowed them to transport and organize that many people into chattel slavery was even possible prior to the transatlantic slave trade.

      feel like you just ignored any examples that do meet your criteria

      I’ve responded with a clear explanation to all of your ridiculously racist claims this whole time. Even providing sources that explain exactly how you came up with your assumptions. You on the other hand have ignored every question and have failed to explain how your claims are pertinent to the conversation.

      Honestly just sounds like exceptionalism to me. Again, sounds like you are a racist.

      Ahh yes, a rebuttal that disproves a highly inaccurate claim… Exceptionalism.

      Again, how do I seem racist? I already said east asians can be racist, I’ve already said they’ve had slaves. The only thing I am denying is your inaccurate use of the word racism under specific context, and denying your clearly inaccurate claims African slave trade happening in East Asia during a specific dynasty.

      You on the other hand have made generalized claims about race this whole time, in an effort to conflate all slavery as being equally bad.

      You don’t seem like a racist, based on your claims you are a racist. Go kick rocks.

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        I don’t generally split hairs on enslaving people to make a racist argument that my people are better in some way cause they might have treated their slaves better in some circumstances, that’s legit crazy.

        If I had a choice to be a slave, would I prefer being an Asian woman being group raped by Asian men until death, would I rather be castrated and worked to death in persia, would I rather he worked to death an whipped on a plantation, would I rather be a house slave for the Ting (which by the way they said they were very nice to their slaves and I bet they was never a bad experience!), would I rather be a Chinese space to the Khan?

        None of those sound good, none of them sound like a race is better than the other, you are making a racial argument based on the nuances of slavery and it’s kinda silly!

        Racist.

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          don’t generally split hairs on enslaving people to make a racist argument that my people are better in some way

          We’re not talking about modern people, nor are we blaming modern people for their ancestors behaviour. We are examining the crimes historic people did to other historic people, which do vary in different degrees in scale and violence.

          The racism you are accused of isn’t because of your people’s past, it’s because you are still utilizing the same racist classification system and justifications that led to their crimes in the first place.

          would I prefer being an Asian woman being group raped by Asian men until death, would I rather be castrated and worked to death in persia, would I rather he worked to death an whipped on a plantation, would I rather be a house slave for the Ting (which by the way they said they were very nice to their slaves and I bet they was never a bad experience!), would I rather be a Chinese space to the Khan?

          Lol, a lot of writing to admit you just don’t care about the suffering caused by chattel slavery in America. I didn’t claim that there weren’t horrific versions of slavery in east Asia, though you are exaggerating certain aspects. What I claimed is that there is a difference in scope and cruelty, compared between the two, which is just a fact.

          none of them sound like a race is better than the other,

          Lol, still about race for you huh.

          you are making a racial argument based on the nuances of slavery and it’s kinda silly!

          Lol, ethnicity does not = race you fucking idiot.

          The whole point of this is that race is construct that can’t be used to actually examine the ethnic prejudices that happened in a specific area at a specific time.

          Racist

          Says the person defending an argument developed by white supremacists…

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            Uh hu, are the white supremacists who came up with the verbiage you don’t like in the room right now?

            Yeah chattel slavery was super bad, maybe uniquely bad, that really doesn’t say anything about all slavery, which is also bad, no real reason to split hairs expect you specifically don’t want to be associated with white people, I guess. I would call that racism honestly. Would you call that Asian supremacy?

            “OUR SLAVERY ISN’T AS BAD, AS THOSE YUCKY WHITES!”

            I don’t know that Muslims are white tho… So that’s not very careful about language.

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              white supremacists who came up with the verbiage you don’t like in the room right now?

              Nah, just their legacy…

              no real reason to split hairs

              Not ignoring one of the largest crimes against humanity = splitting hairs… Interesting.

              don’t want to be associated with white people, I guess. I would call that racism honestly. Would you call that Asian supremacy?

              You do realize you are the only person separating people based on skin color? My wife is German, I don’t hold her country’s past against her. But, if she was a Holocaust denier, or attempted to become a Nazi apologist, things would be different.

              “OUR SLAVERY ISN’T AS BAD, AS THOSE YUCKY WHITES!”

              The internalized guilt is strong with you…

              I don’t know that Muslims are white tho… So that’s not very careful about language.

              Islam is a religion you idiot, it’s not a race, or an ethnicity…Also, you are the only person legitimately utilizing skin color to categorize people. I don’t care what your pigmentation is, that’s not the thing that makes you a racist moron.

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                Lol you think I’m white.

                Next thing you know you’ll be telling me you can’t be racist cause of your white friends.