We have agreed for some while that asserting that "US slavery was far more brutal than any other form" is an unhelpful opinion, because such ranking *should*, ideally, play no place in policy making, and because meaningfully making such rankings would be difficult and require unbiased expertise. I've made that that I don't support makin…
We have agreed for some while that asserting that "US slavery was far more brutal than any other form" is an unhelpful opinion, because such ranking *should*, ideally, play no place in policy making, and because meaningfully making such rankings would be difficult and require unbiased expertise. I've made that that I don't support making any contrary assertion either, for the same reasons. Not making the comparison seems to be optimum for both of us. OK?
The difference is that I was suggesting that an additional reason to avoid promulgating such opinions is that their truth value is highly suspect, absent some analysis that supported the comparison, UNLESS there is some good source. My opening was:
> "I would be interested in solid sources for the belief that 'the American slave trade was far more brutal system than slave cultures anywhere else'. "
I'm still open to any evidence supporting such a comparison, because other people keep making it.
But since, for other reasons, we agree that such assertions are unhelpful, there's nothing further to discuss here. Let's agree to agree.
We have agreed for some while that asserting that "US slavery was far more brutal than any other form" is an unhelpful opinion, because such ranking *should*, ideally, play no place in policy making, and because meaningfully making such rankings would be difficult and require unbiased expertise. I've made that that I don't support making any contrary assertion either, for the same reasons. Not making the comparison seems to be optimum for both of us. OK?
The difference is that I was suggesting that an additional reason to avoid promulgating such opinions is that their truth value is highly suspect, absent some analysis that supported the comparison, UNLESS there is some good source. My opening was:
> "I would be interested in solid sources for the belief that 'the American slave trade was far more brutal system than slave cultures anywhere else'. "
I'm still open to any evidence supporting such a comparison, because other people keep making it.
But since, for other reasons, we agree that such assertions are unhelpful, there's nothing further to discuss here. Let's agree to agree.