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Originally Posted by timj219
PC? PC?? You call acknowledging the humanity of all humans PC??? Slavery was the economic engine of large parts of this country, Whites believed blacks were cattle because it was convenient and profitable to do so. People who cared about liberty and who might have been classified as libertarians thought of slavery as an abomination long before this country was founded. Even many slave owneres did so. If pointing this out to you is "nonsense" so be it. Some people (as slavery showed) will believe whatever they need to regardless of the evidence.
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I knew you were going to do this.
This isn't about slavery, get over it. What I posted was on point and the country was libertarian. It wasn't all whites that owned slaves either, there were black slave owners.
If we did everything the same as we did then only with free slaves, would you say it's not libertarian?
You are only focusing on one group (not surprised), just think about how the country operated.
It was a libertarian society for everybody except the slaves, ok. Swaying the debate in this direction (after slavery was already mentioned by Disillusioned in the second post) is just tiring. Nobody here is advocating slavery.
edit: And yes, you are overreacting because of PC in 2009.