*sigh*. Lets go over this again. ANY white person who every deems to talk about, compare, or somehow question just how bad slavery was, is a complete and utter fool. Bottom line, in the aggregate, it sucked. It was wrong. It’s something you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. To even deem to compare it against anything today, and argue “well maybe it wasn’t so bad” is the mark of someone who clearly is mentally deficient.
And any Republican politician who ever hopes to win an election again will run away from this guy as fast as they can. Rightfully so.
Oh brother.
In the Negro Family Daniel Patrick Moynihan said essentially the same thing rancher Bundy said in his non-Harvard educated way.
So the most you could fault Bundy for his crude diction.
Unless you believe Moynihan was also a complete and utter fool.
And that means the Left owns the battlefield. I say, call it the "dog whistle" that it is.
And anyone who responds as the Left wants them to, is also a dog.
Thank you for your patience with this discussion bigdaddy45.
While I respect your opinion, it remains that your opinion is based on what you've been taught to think about slavery, but not actual experience with slavery.
And while you may think that I've concluded that prison is worse than slavery, I'm saying that it is an unresolved question, which I think is the point that Bundy was trying to make. While I know that the PC answer is to say that slavery was worse, I cannot prove that one is worse than the other. Neither can Bundy for that matter.
And Bundy shouldn't be politically attacked for just asking the question, especially since there are no clear answers. In fact, liberals attacking him for asking the question begs the further question if liberals are using the Hollywood stereotype of the horrors of slavery to exploit blacks by indoctrinating them to be victims, today's blacks having never experienced slavery.
Actually it still happens today. Coincidentally, in the same regions where blacks were sold before.
And yes, Hollywood has redefined it. That is not to deny that atrocities were committed, but atrocities were not the norm and Bundy understands that.
Unfortunately you don't, but that is not a crime..however it should temper your criticism somewhat.