Recent questions tagged slavery

Description : What is your opinion on the issue of reparations?

Last Answer : As I have stated before, we should offer a free ticket to their homeland to anyone who wants it.

Description : In this Twilight Zone scenario where present-day white Americans wake up one day owning black slaves again, what do you think will happen?

Last Answer : Instant uprising?

Description : Should voluntary slavery be legalised?

Last Answer : Voluntary slavery already exists. It’s called volunteering and work experience. People choosing to work for nothing.

Description : How important is the issue of slavery to understanding racial attitudes in the United States?

Last Answer : Extremely. No other immigrant group has been brought here forcibly against their will and kept as slaves for hundreds of years.

Description : How does Santa Claus procure all the presents for the billions of children?

Last Answer : Santa Claus is actually the CEO of Amazon.

Description : What does the government owe to the descendants of slaves?

Last Answer : answer:First, we (the citizens of the US)owe them nothing. If anyone owes anything, it is the descendants of the slave owners (i.e. Thomas Jefferson's great-great-great grandson). But even that is a hard case ... - to be a victim. It's a copout, and dishonest. At worst, it's an excuse for failure.

Description : If you are tattoed with bar code, are you saying "I have no value as a human being", "Human beings should not value themselves",or something else? If something else, what are you saying?

Last Answer : Personal preference. That’s what he/she likes?

Description : Would you, could you, work any harder if enslaved?

Last Answer : Probably. My “current job” is a Master’s thesis, and incidentally, I’m supposed to be working on it right now. I don’t think my slave keeper would let me procrastinate on the Fluthernets while there’s science to be done.