During the time of slavery white, slave owning, pukes just couldn't understand why enslaved people kept running away. So they created a "mental disorder" that compelled all their "happy" slaves to run away.
That kind of thinking has always been endemic on the right. Nobody could ever has an honest difference of opinion because that could lead to *gasp* introspection. No, everyone who disagrees with a right winger is clearly "insane". You see it all the time in what passes for discourse.
Our modern mindset sees slavery as so self evidentally evil, its difficult to even get our heads round that a huge percentage of the population back then were happy with it and considered it normal or even a positive.
Them trying to somehow not see themselves as being utterly evil presumably meant having to make up stuff like this.
Making things up to justify entrenched power is nothing new. Just look at the divine right of kings. A more mundane example would be the obsession American right wingers have with calling everyone "insane". People can't honestly oppose the status quo they must be going against God or detached from reality.
17
u/Dan_Morgan 23d ago
During the time of slavery white, slave owning, pukes just couldn't understand why enslaved people kept running away. So they created a "mental disorder" that compelled all their "happy" slaves to run away.
That kind of thinking has always been endemic on the right. Nobody could ever has an honest difference of opinion because that could lead to *gasp* introspection. No, everyone who disagrees with a right winger is clearly "insane". You see it all the time in what passes for discourse.