#slave owning

[didthekingdieyet]

[secular-jew]

Where cancel culture must go next? How about Islamic Colonialism, which is ongoing and continues to this day, which took roughly 100 million slaves out of Africa, more than all other empires combined.

Let's start with Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. ""It is well known that Muhammad owned and traded slaves. We even know the names of some of his slaves and the details of some of his slave transactions. He also had a harem, with sex slaves that included a white Coptic slave with whom he had a child. So, unlike Thomas Jefferson, where sex with a slave is alleged, Muhammed’s rape and the subsequent birth of a child because of the rape is well documented in Islamic history.""

Muhammad killed all the male Jews of Yathrib (now called Medina), which was the vast majority of residents (50%), in this now Saudi city in the early 7th century. Muhammad then took all the remaining women and children as slaves, including Safiyyeh, who he married and made his sex slave after murdering her husband, her father and grandfather.

Where Cancel Culture Must Go Next

For cancel culture, slavery is the original sin of the United States.  It is an eternal and indelible sin for which there can be no forgiven

[grohndi]

I’m going to say something that could be controversial.

I agree that most of Hamilton characters are problematic, they were slave owners and so on. But we should not forget the time and place and culture they were born in. 

Saying so I’m still not justifiyng them because I think everyone is able to recognize what is rotten in their society BUT I’m saying we should not label them as 100% evil. 

Why? Because I’m sure you all have at least one piece of clothing from H&M, Zara or one of those cheap brands (as I have). If you don’t know, those clothes are made in sweatshops in Asia were those who work there are pretty much modern slaves. (Watch the documentary The True Costs).

By buying their clothes you support modern slavery, but I’m sure you don’t feel like you’re evil or bad. Maybe in 200 years sweatshops will be seen as something completely horrible and all those who supported them will be labeled as 100% evil, as we do now with many things from the past. 

I’m not saying that slave owerns should be redeemed just because we have a different kind of slavery nowadays, but that we can at least try to understand that they were born in that kind of society as we are in ours and that it took some thought and character strenght to go against laws and cultural norms.

Next time you need to buy a shirt ask youself “Would I buy it form 30 dollars instaed of 5, if it would mean not supporting sweatshops?”.

Just becasue we don’t directly own those slaves and we don’t see them, we still benefit from their status and pay for them pretty much everyday. But, as I said, we often don’t realize that because it’s “normal” in our culture, we are somehow detached from it. We don’t see our shirt and realize that is made by modern slaves. 

I understand that slave owners actually saw their slaves and directy bought them, but do we really care about the lives of those who work in sweatshops if we still buy the clothes they made? Is it less bad just because we don’t see them and we say “I respect every human being”, while not doing so?

I think we should be able to see the good things those historical chatacter did while adressing what they did wrong. It doesn’t mean we should forgive them, but understand and admit we are not perfect too, because I often feel the tumblr way is “we are 100% perfect” and to see everything black or white.

(And with that mindset no one should ever write about an historical character of like them because they were all somehow problematic or slave owners or racists or religous foundamentalists etc, but that’s another story  EDIT: this last sentence is sarcastic, I do believe history is extremely important and that we should look at historical figures as a whole not pointing out only the good or the bad. The mindset I’m referring to in this sentence is the “let’s label the person as 100% evil”).