• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    191·
    9 months ago

    So it’s just like real life.

    Those who argue for change are ridiculed.

    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
      69·
      9 months ago

      I don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.

      • morphballganon@lemmy.world
        131·
        9 months ago

        Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
          13·
          9 months ago

          I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.

          Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        3·
        9 months ago

        Here in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.