Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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You have propaganda saying, no, it's actually your fault.
It's not just how the world works.
This wouldn't happen if you didn't own slaves.
This wouldn't happen if you weren't slave traders, right?
And so by re-describing slavery as the fault of particular groups, that this is something that is blameworthy, right?
It opens up the possibilities.
It does two things.
First of all, it establishes the fact that actually it's not just the way the world works, that there are actually people, it's the product of human choice.
And secondly, that if it's blameworthy to be committed to slavery, it must also say something good about you if you're opposed to slavery.
And so a kind of a politics of anti-slavery emerges out of this contra-tempts between who's more at fault.
And in figuring out who the bad guys are, there's also an effort to figure out who the good guys are.
Now, of course, neither side of this political debate has any commitments to anti-slavery at all.
when they're making these arguments, they're not saying that the slave trade should stop or that slavery should be abolished.
What they're saying is that this practice is somebody else's problem.
So they weren't actually against it per se, or they didn't have some deep moral conviction.
No, they were just throwing mud.
Is that it?
No, absolutely.
No, this has had nothing to do with being in favor of emancipation or abolition or being concerned about black people or any of those things.
What it was about was trying to reveal using slavery as
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