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user-inactivated  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Are you comfortable in your own skin?

Of course the US was less extreme than the holocaust. The length of time that the US oppressed its Black citizens was much longer. I suppose it did stop short of, ynno, exterminating them. Small comfort. The holocaust was the exception.





swedishbadgergirl  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay. I'm going to be mean now. Don't take it personally.

You're being really annoying in a way Americans often are that I can't stand. You are taking the most dramatic moments of American history and calling that the rule, and when I bring up moments from European history you are calling it the exception.

And no, it's really really not. Sweden played a part in the slave trade and owned colonies (kind of) in America before America became America.

America is a REALLY young country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_colonization_of_the_Americas

user-inactivated  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I looked back on the comments --- I'm a dick. Lemmie talk to you tomorrow you it. I need to go to bed.

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, sleep deprivation is no joke.

user-inactivated  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I looked at them again: I don't even know what I was trying to argue. I thiiiiink I meant that America held slaves longer? I'm not honestly sure anymore.

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, don't worry 'bout it.

user-inactivated  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On an unrelated note: is it bad form to comment in another person's conversation?

swedishbadgergirl  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think so, it just adds another chain of cements. guess it depends a lot on how and when and in what conversation it is though.