Whenever the topic of video games as a distinct medium comes up, I jump at the chance to highlight what they can offer that other media (such as film, books, etc.) cannot.
>No one wants to grapple with the very high likelihood that not only you would have been holding the whip but also ridiculing anyone who argued otherwise as a daft imbecile
Interesting. Shall we also talk about how the ancestors of most black Americans would have happily sold off their tribal enemies as slaves if they had been on the winning side of whatever conflict they ended up losing?
Shall we talk about how, without Europeans, the African and arab slave trades would likely still exist, and that principled opposition to slavery is mostly a white person thing, historically?
> Shall we also talk about how the ancestors of most black Americans would have happily sold off their tribal enemies as slaves if they had been on the winning side of whatever conflict they ended up losing?
I already talked about how the transatlantic slave trade operated above. Did you see that part?
> Shall we talk about how, without Europeans, the African and arab slave trades would likely still exist, and that principled opposition to slavery is mostly a white person thing, historically?
Citation needed? Slavery was a universal practice and didn't really start to die off until the beginning of the industrial revolution. I have no idea how you pin abolition on being a "white person thing" given how many white persons enthusiastically engaged in the practice.
>No one wants to grapple with the very high likelihood that not only you would have been holding the whip but also ridiculing anyone who argued otherwise as a daft imbecile
Interesting. Shall we also talk about how the ancestors of most black Americans would have happily sold off their tribal enemies as slaves if they had been on the winning side of whatever conflict they ended up losing?
Shall we talk about how, without Europeans, the African and arab slave trades would likely still exist, and that principled opposition to slavery is mostly a white person thing, historically?
> Shall we also talk about how the ancestors of most black Americans would have happily sold off their tribal enemies as slaves if they had been on the winning side of whatever conflict they ended up losing?
I already talked about how the transatlantic slave trade operated above. Did you see that part?
> Shall we talk about how, without Europeans, the African and arab slave trades would likely still exist, and that principled opposition to slavery is mostly a white person thing, historically?
Citation needed? Slavery was a universal practice and didn't really start to die off until the beginning of the industrial revolution. I have no idea how you pin abolition on being a "white person thing" given how many white persons enthusiastically engaged in the practice.