Originally Posted by
sean
Hollywood movies had a lot to do with it.
It intensified around Mississippi Burning. They portrayed the white extremists as hanging the blacks for no reason just because of "the colour of their skin" not because they raped a white woman or something. 12 years a Slave simply wasn't accurate. Instead of concentrating on the more potent themes of slavery as an institution that degrades owners and causes dread for slaves it emphasised occasional and gratuitous punishment as commonplace. Academic historians mostly agree the horrors of slavery came largely from other sources. In other words, it was a massive misfire and should have been insulting to everyone who watched it. But that's what you get for basing an entire movie on one propagandist's account and Oprah Winfrey's "muh feelings."
Despite what they tell you, black slaves were not treated badly. They were more expensive than any other slave. Most slave owners would not beat and whip them like you see in Hollywood white guilt movies. Look at it this way, if you break a machine, a expensive machine at that, you lose production and revenue. Black slave owners knew this and saw no profit in beating their help. And a lot of slaves bought their freedom and started their own plantation and bought black slaves.
Whites have higher empathy proportionally, women in particular can be emotionally manipulated by news, movies, and "education" playing the strings of their emotions (guilt, shame, praise, heroism, crying children) until they let non-white hordes into the gates or enter the gates of non-white hordes.
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