"Our nation is built on private property rights, which you liberals/progressives hate."

You are confused (as usual).

Our nation was built in the right to own slaves AS private property.

It took a civil war to try and correct that mistake. A civil war we are still recovering from apparently.

And the homeless (and property less) have rights in America, too.

Fix the homeless problem (and the laws) and this problem will go away.

We have the resources and the ability to do so but not the desire.

Apparently.

Uhh...what?

Slavery was a global institution for thousands of years.

Seriously? Now you are just trolling.

It was done for thousands of years and that made it ok? Enough to entrench in our constitution as we formed our nation?

Great Britain ended it by just passing a law.

We had to kill 600,000 Americans before we would all agree to do the right thing and stop this hideous practice. Though it did not stop the mistreatment and discrimination of blacks it did free them.

How did the civil war do anything to correct a mistake that had been around as long as humans had?

It was a poison pill buried in our constitution and had to be removed if we were to ever come close to living up to our creed that "all men are created equal".

They did it by freeing 4 million humans from slavery and ending it as an acceptable practice in America.

And yes in case you missed that day in history class (and are too lazy to do the research yourself ) America was built and became an economic powerhouse using the free labor of slaves.

And even in the US, Native Americans were practicing slavery as long as the southern states were...maybe longer.

#32 | POSTED BY MADBOMBER

Just because someone else's doing it (and have been doing it for ages) you do know that does not justify anything. Right?

You mother must have told you that at least once in your life.

It probably sounded something out this:

"If your friend Jimmy jumps off a bridge are going to jump off a bridge, too?"

Well, let me ask you this. Slavery was an institution in every culture going back for thousands of years.

Does that mean that they all were bad or evil?

How about cannibals?

Were those cultures that practiced cannibalism evil? Should those cultures that practiced cannibalism be considered guilty for what their ancestors did in the present?

#50 | Posted by madbomber

What is considered "evil" does vary from culture to culture throughout history.

You really don't know why slavery and cannibalism are bad? Seriously?

American slavery was particularly bad.

In America people were not recognized as human beings but as property that could be mortgaged, traded, bought, sold, used as collateral, given as a gift and disposed of violently.

And generations were born into slavery and passed that status onto their children.

In addition, most African Americans had no wages or any wealth to pass down to descendants, no legal right to accumulate property, and individual exceptions depended on their enslavers' whims.(warning! This statement may be illegal in Florida and Texas public schools).

If you cannot see why American slavery was a particularly bad thing by now then you must be a frickin White Supremacists or a Nazi bro.

And even when slavery ended there were the Jim Crow laws that marginalized blacks and forced segregation and prevented African American economic independence right up until 1965. (Also a statement probably not allowed in Florida and Texas public schools)

As for cannibalism do I really have to explain to you why eating other humans for any reason is very bad habit?

"In two thousand years, there are things that you and I do today that will be viewed in the same light that we currently view slavery and cannibalism. Things we don't even give a second thought to. And if someone were to try and explain why our behavior was so heinous, we wouldn't understand."

I am not a ignorant close minded maga maroon and so don't include me in your weird ignorance of potential heinous behavior. There is heinous human behavior all over this planet right now. Like men thinking they have a right to control women's reproductive systems without their permission. Or treating migrants and refugees as subhuman animals. My beliefs make it so I even have trouble killing a bug now and I find myself apologizing profusely to the universe when I do sometimes so I am sure I could understand potentially "heinous" behavior and corruption if someone was to come from the future and tell me I was personally behaving "heinously" and it needs to stop.

And I am pretty sure that slaves thousands of years ago already knew it was "heinous" human behavior. No one had to come from the future to tell them. They could just do nothing about it. Like African American slaves who could do nothing but suffer (and maybe try to run north) as they were trapped in an inhumane and corrupt system which took a civil war and 600,000 American lives to finally end.

And on topic (not that I strayed far) I can recognize that our treatment of the homeless is inhumane and even heinous. I don't need someone from the future to tell me. I can't blame the homeless for not trusting or wanting to be a part of our "system" today and taking advantage of the law and absent property owners. I don't support them doing that but I can certainly understand why they do whatever they can to survive in a system that doesn't seem to care about them or their plight.

I guaranGodDamnTee that the future is gonna frown on how we are treating our fellow humans today.