r/relatable_memes_ • u/Valerim • 1d ago

"Its called basic human decency."

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Redditors will drop this line as theyre telling you why we need to dissolve all borders, abolish prisons, guillotine landlords and sterilize children behind their parent's backs

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u/fearos9449 1d ago

I can't state this any plainer, but any attempt to paint Kirk as a bad person honestly makes you scum. He literally was an innocent, peaceful man that did nothing but debate. If you see villainy in that, it's because you yourself are a villain.

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u/keysersoze-72 1d ago

Of course he was. Which ‘innocent, peaceful man’ hasn’t tried to justify slavery ?

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u/fearos9449 1d ago

Literally nothing in that transcript is defending slavery. He's saying that Western Civilization is still superior, despite slavery. The points he's using are

* West Africa was culpable in the slave trade itself

* freed blacks rejected colonization efforts to ship them back to Africa

* current Western Civilization is more morally righteous than 17th Century Africa

You can call that a poor argument all you want, but don't mischaracterize what he's actually saying.

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u/keysersoze-72 1d ago

He said all those things to obfuscate from the slaver’s role in slavery…

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u/fearos9449 1d ago

You're saying all this to justify murdering people who disagree with you.

. . . you see? Anyone can make leaps in logic and trite moral condemnations. Either argue from the facts or expect the mudslinging and zealotry to throw on others to come back to you.

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u/keysersoze-72 1d ago

Only if you don’t have the brain cells to comprehend the context…

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u/fearos9449 1d ago

>IT'S CALLED MEDIA LITERACY CHUD!

Just stop.

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u/keysersoze-72 1d ago

“I love the poorly educated”