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Oxymoron Alert
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I just... [Tyrion bitchslap gif]
12 Years a Slave just won the Oscar for best picture, and a conservative pundit has to complain:
From The American Spectator:
"If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr McQueen does not want us to hear about it. This, in turn, surely means that his view of the history of the American South is as partial and one-sided as that of the hated Gone With the Wind."
Dude, you do 'get' that slavery is owning another person, right? There may be varying levels of direct physical abuse on a case-by-case basis but there is no such thing as benign slavery. The social and economic system that depends on it is, was, and will forever be evil at its core!
Also, the book from which the screenplay was adapted was written by the actual man who was forced into slavery for 12 years. It was non-fiction!
I just... [Tyrion bitchslap gif]
12 Years a Slave just won the Oscar for best picture, and a conservative pundit has to complain:
From The American Spectator:
"If ever in slavery’s 250-year history in North America there were a kind master or a contented slave, as in the nature of things there must have been, here and there, we may be sure that Mr McQueen does not want us to hear about it. This, in turn, surely means that his view of the history of the American South is as partial and one-sided as that of the hated Gone With the Wind."
Dude, you do 'get' that slavery is owning another person, right? There may be varying levels of direct physical abuse on a case-by-case basis but there is no such thing as benign slavery. The social and economic system that depends on it is, was, and will forever be evil at its core!
Also, the book from which the screenplay was adapted was written by the actual man who was forced into slavery for 12 years. It was non-fiction!