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Botany

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14. We had "Christians" who were being told by their religious leaders that God had made blacks that ..

Reply to tenderfoot (Reply #13)

Tue Nov 1, 2022, 09:46 AM

Nov 2022

.... way because they were "less human" then white people so it was OK to keep them as slaves
and that the Native Americans were "savages."

America was in a large part founded by religious racist extremists who were OK with slavery
and the genocide of the Native Peoples.

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It won't be popular to say this, but this does appeal to our own confirmation biases. plimsoll Nov 2022 #15

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They have been brainwashed by Fox, GOP pols, hate talk radio/TV, their "pastors," their own .... Botany Nov 2022 #10

Oh come now, there was no right wing media when we slaughtered native americans... tenderfoot Nov 2022 #13

We had "Christians" who were being told by their religious leaders that God had made blacks that .. Botany Nov 2022 #14

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