I am absolutely gobsmacked at the thought of a Black...held accountable
According to the left the very concept of treating blacks like people who have control over their actions and can therefore be held responsible for their behavior is racist.
That's stupid. If you accept the premise that all or most Africans are incompatible with society, (not necessarily true, but for the sake of this argument, I will) then the most humane thing would be voluntary relocation to Africa or some other place.
Keeping them as slaves is pointless in the modern age. Besides the economic uselessness in the age of automation, it just reignites racial resentment, which solves nothing in the long run, and it is unnecessarily cruel.
Slavery was always economically useless, in that it decreased the total output of a given population. The reason it was nonetheless practiced is because it served as a wealth transfer from less powerful people to more powerful people.
This is also the reason for collectivization in the Soviet Union and China under Mao - the extraction of an agricultural surplus which it was supposed to generate, in order to get foreign currency which would then be used for the purchase of capital goods from capitalist pigs.
But of course, just as slaves, peasants will work less hard when they can keep 0% of what they produce, so collectivization turned the USSR - with some of the most fertile lands in the world - into a grain importer. Same for China, where people were dying from hunger as late as 1976.
According to the left the very concept of treating blacks like people who have control over their actions and can therefore be held responsible for their behavior is racist.
Alright, I'll take the bait.
That's stupid. If you accept the premise that all or most Africans are incompatible with society, (not necessarily true, but for the sake of this argument, I will) then the most humane thing would be voluntary relocation to Africa or some other place.
Keeping them as slaves is pointless in the modern age. Besides the economic uselessness in the age of automation, it just reignites racial resentment, which solves nothing in the long run, and it is unnecessarily cruel.
Slavery was always economically useless, in that it decreased the total output of a given population. The reason it was nonetheless practiced is because it served as a wealth transfer from less powerful people to more powerful people.
This is also the reason for collectivization in the Soviet Union and China under Mao - the extraction of an agricultural surplus which it was supposed to generate, in order to get foreign currency which would then be used for the purchase of capital goods from capitalist pigs.
But of course, just as slaves, peasants will work less hard when they can keep 0% of what they produce, so collectivization turned the USSR - with some of the most fertile lands in the world - into a grain importer. Same for China, where people were dying from hunger as late as 1976.
It sure wasn't economically useless to the J's that did most of the slavery.