The New York Times: Elections Are Bad for Democracy
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But don't you see.
We had to end up here by giving the Federal Government the right to just fucking kill you in the bloodiest war possible if you didn't bow to them, meaning every other election below that was pointless.
Clearly every fucking awful thing that has followed from that was worth it to let Blacks be given their freedom! They have done so much for this nation!!
Don't blame the human shield for the actions of the man using them as such.
When you offer yourself gleefully to do someone's bidding, even if you aren't aware you are being puppetted, you don't get to be absolved of your actions. You still commit them.
Ve vas Just Following Orders™!
Blaming the slave means nothing. Liberating the slave denies the enemy a human shield, and makes a man out of a slave.
Slaves, by definition, aren't accountable of anything. They have no agency, that's why they are property. Freedom comes with agency, which comes with accountability.
If a slave picks cotton, that is beyond his choice because he is a slave.
If a slave commits evil on his own volition, his slavery means nothing to that. A slave can still be capable of sin, he can still burn, vandalize, kill all of his own free will. He still has choices to make every moment of every day independent of his slavery. He may not have complete freedom or control of his life, but he also isn't literally strapped to a chain every hour of the day being controlled for every second of it like a robot.
All you are doing is dehumanizing them further, just so you can pretend they are blameless and push all responsibility onto their masters, as you always do. Because nothing is ever anyone's faults ever. They were forced to loot, rape, molest, kill because apparently their impulse control is so low that some stuffy elite somewhere offering them the choice to do that immediately forces them to do so. Little more than beasts at that point.
You see how that's worse right?