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'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Absurd, Wrong Answers (gizmodo.com)
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[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Yes, I think people don’t like it because they think any time you use a word with a positive connotation (“benefit”), you must be speaking positively.

Although I agree with your overall point, in this case I think people don't like it because that's how it's most recently been used in this context.

DeSantis, however, is continuing to defend Florida’s new curriculum, which covers a broad range of topics and includes the assertion for middle school instruction that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

their personal benefit... personal?? it's not like slaves could quit, and find another job. if they developed skills, it helped them perform their forced labour, and so the benefit is all to their owner and master.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I assume he meant that benefitted them after emancipation. Or something.

Go to the Atlanta History Museum sometime, their civil war exhibit has a whole section of "were the slaves really better after being freed" shit that's pretty disgusting.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I mean, tbf, they have a point.

During slavery they were fed, protected, and housed by their masters.

After slavery, they were simply brutalized, raped, murdered, butchered without any protection whatsoever.

So yes, slavery had benefits, and protected them from the rest of the evil southern monstrous scum.

[–] qfjp@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After slavery, they were simply brutalized, raped, murdered, butchered without any protection whatsoever.

What exactly do you think masters did to "disobedient" slaves?

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm saying freeing them didn't do that much because they were still at the mercy of the monsters.

We needed to fix the south before we left, instead we left them to suffer among the same evil that literally inspired hitler.

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