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Originally Posted by parmnion
It did not. There was no history of american slavery, it just happened, then was abolished
Nothing to do with history at all.
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Nah, you're talking yourself in circles.
Saying that history is pointless because it can't prevent something that didn't happen in history before is ridiculous. Tell me, since slavery was abolished, have we as a nation led any boats to africa to kidnap people to sell on as slaves? Have black people been regularly enslaved in the US?
The problem is that you're constantly trying to change the goalposts and worm your way out of admitting you're wrong when you don't really have another option. You can't argue against people learning from history's mistakes since pretty much all our civil advances over the years have been reliant on learning from past injustices and so now you're trying to make out that history shouldn't be taught because it couldn't something from happening that didn't happen before.
The slave trade happened, it was abolished and people learned from it, which is why Europe isn't running a modern day slave trade today.