Tom Cotton says slavery was a necessary evil

[YorkRd]

The modern ReTrumplican bristles at the notion that racism, at least systemic racism, exists. They seek to “cancel” such notions by banning teaching our children Critical Race Theory (which they were never taught anyway) or anything remotely suggesting that America has race issues. In so doing they have sought to deemphasize the parts of American history that might make whites “uncomfortable.” This cleansing has included everything from the documented history of black lynchings to the stories of Rosa Parks and a courageous little girl named Ruby Bridges.


[link:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/2/2078149/-Tom-Cotton-Says-Slavery-Not-About-White-Supremacy-But-Was-A-Necessary-Evil-Some-Facts|

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. wtf

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Evil, yes. But not necessary.

[canuckledragger]

5. Oh, it was necessary...

To the lazy plantation owners that didn't want to do the work themselves...more profitable to force someone else that you don't have to pay to do it for you.

[Gore1FL]

25. Maybe. But I submit that if they had paid their workers the overall economy would have been better.

The plantation owners would have been better off without slavery. They were too short-sighted to see it.

[SunSeeker]

32. Much like modern Republicans who don't want to do anything about climate change.

They think addressing climate change will hurt their bottom line, when in fact it will create green jobs and improve the economy, both in the long and in the short term.

[wnylib]

34. They wanted to create for themselves in America

the lifestyle of British manor Lords in England. But they lacked a large enough peasant servant class. They tried to use Native Americans first, but NAs were free spirits in their own land. They kept escaping because they knew the land better than the colonists. They had friends and relatives to raid white settlers to free NA slaves.

So the colonists imported Africans to a strange land and climate, separated from their cultures by an ocean, and from relatives after being enslaved in America. They created a genteel life for themselves at the expense of enslaved people and reinforced their idea of an elite good life by relying on race enslavement to maintain an elevated life for themselves.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. 1865 is calling you, Tom, and you're on the wrong side...

[electric_blue68]

36. Quick! Find him a time machine! (disgusting!!!)

[JohnSJ]

4. The media spends days on Whoppi Goldberg, but racist crap like this is hardly mentioned

[LakeArenal]

10. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

[Baked Potato]

6. Unlike Tommy who is evil and unnecessary. Nt

[JanMichael]

7. Beat me to it. I was going to say as opposed to being evil and unnecessary nt

[Baked Potato]

9. Yes!

[magicarpet]

8. .... how else were the plantation owners to become filthy filthy rich ?

Tom Cotton for presi-dunce.

[Septua]

11. OK, I'll concede systemic racism...

.. doesn't exist in the country. It is systemic today only in the Retrumplican population.

Cotton's interpretation of 'the founding fathers' position on slavery is distorted. His argument is severely flawed.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/2/2078149/-Tom-Cotton-Says-Slavery-Not-About-White-Supremacy-But-Was-A-Necessary-Evil-Some-Facts

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/8/4/21340642/is-evil-ever-necessary-slavery-tom-cotton-hiroshima-1619-project-cs-lewis-wheaton-college-byu

[Ohio Joe]

20. No... Just no

It is systemic throughout the entire country, no question about it.

[Septua]

40. Yeah, I wouldn't attempt to debate...

..anyone on the degree of racism in the country. I just don't fully comprehend the level of racism necessary to qualify as 'systemic'. It is sure as hell systemic in red states that write minority-suppressive election legislation. I will never forget Lindsey Graham's comments after the 2020 election:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=XwMK_kqJmpvEeslY9L_crQ

The 'internalized' and 'interpersonal' racism is more obvious within the GOP.

https://www.cacgrants.org/assets/ce/Documents/2019/FourLevelsOfRacism.pdf

[uponit7771]

43. System racism in US justice system is nationwide no doubt in every county. The US has the

... highest rate of incarcerations' per capita in the world and blacks and browns are disproportionately inmates of this system.

Americans aren't the worst people in the world why are we jailed like it?

[yardwork]

39. Systemic institutional racism pervades US culture.

[Haggard Celine]

12. Piece of Shit

[czarjak]

13. Cotton picking sides.

[CentralMass]

14. He should try it some time.

[IbogaProject]

15. If it was a necessary evil than teach about it

Afterall we should be comfortable teaching about our history, especially if it was necessary to get where we are. Hmm sounds like it would fit right into a law school CRT class, about how to redress the present effects of that prior "necessary evil"?

[SunSeeker]

33. Exactly. They claim they want to keep Confederate statues because it teaches history.

Yet they never put up statues of heroic slaves, Buffalo Soldiers, Underground Railroad heroes, etc.

[struggle4progress]

16. "In the land of Cotton, old times are not forgotten. Look away! Look away!"

[roamer65]

17. Pencil neck at it again?

Everytime I see that idiot I think how easy it would be to…

[GB_RN]

26. Charles Pierce Calls Him...

The Bobble-throated Slapdick From The State of Arkansas.

[roamer65]

28. Fitting nomenclature.

[Poiuyt]

18. They don't even pretend they're not racist anymore

[bullwinkle428]

19. Necessary for what? To make your ancestors rich?

[milestogo]

21. Maybe we can teach Privileged Patriarchal White Male theory instead.

Puts a finer point on it.

[BaronChocula]

22. And Tom Cotton is a

white nationalist.

[niyad]

30. tom cottonmouth is a f'n traitor.

[BootinUp]

23. asshole.

[monkeyman1]

24. another congress critter trying to use TFG's playbook & might have a sharpie?

[GB_RN]

27. Tehran Tom Cotton (R-Israel)...

Is a gigantic, flaming, bag of dog shit, disguised as a human being.

[gratuitous]

29. Just amazing how much evil Republicans find to be necessary

But good things? Can't afford 'em! It's not up to government or society to make sure all citizens are fed, clothed, and housed. Billions, trillions, of dollars poured into Afghanistan to watch it all crumble in days (if not hours) when the money spigot is finally shut off. That's when you heard wailing and gnashing of Republican teeth.

[oasis]

31. Hopefully, the press will ask Trump to comment on Cotton's statement.

If he gives the wrong answer will TFG be able to keep the "Blacks for Trump" in attendance at his rallies?

[Boomerproud]

41. They'll still be there, right behind him with their signs and

tee shirts. They seem to have a lot of vacation time from their jobs to follow him around the country. Hmmm.

[Bristlecone]

35. Republicans today would have no problem enacting slavery again.

[malaise]

37. Well let's enslave him

That is all

[no_hypocrisy]

38. Tell that to the face of descendants of slaves.

It was "necessary" to:

Kidnap them from their homeland
Stuff them into the bottom of ships where they were chained, barely fed, urinated and defecated on themselves (and having to endure the stench of themselves and other slaves) for months.
Sell them to plantation owners
Separate from their parents, siblings, spouses, children
Force them into hard labor
Force them to address their owners as "Master"
Whip them for not working hard enough, learning how to read and/or write, for escaping bondage
Arrested, returned, and punished while in northern "free" states
Rape females including children

and more human terror that went unpunished.

Necessary?

[Aristus]

42. But fortunately, America never practiced slavery.

They were "African guest workers"...

[Solly Mack]

44. Probably how his parents explained his conception to him.

It's what happens when you find out your parents are both brother and sister as well as first cousins, making you both a son and a nephew to your parents, as well the great-nephew and grandson to your grandparents/great aunt and uncle.

When your family tree is a stick, you lash out.

That and he's racist.