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Jezebel reports:
“Today is a good day to remember: Christianity is the faith and America is the place slavery came to die,” the Missouri senator tweeted, managing to fail at both grammar and a basic grasp of history.
In reality, as Jeet Heer and many others pointed out in response to Hawley’s inane commentary, the United States lagged decades behind most other countries in the Western hemisphere in abolishing slavery. England, Mexico, France, and Denmark had all ended slavery before we adopted the 13th Amendment in 1865.
And while it’s unclear from a logical or even syntax perspective what “Christianity is the faith” is supposed to mean in that tweet, Hawley also seems to be whiffing on the irony that Americans used Christianity to justify slavery in the first place.
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There was no race-based chattel slavery here before Christians came
England, Russia, Spain, France, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, South Africa, India, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico & Peru abolished it b4 US
America is literally where slavery came to live https://t.co/wZb36uvXCO
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) June 19, 2023
Christian slave owners used the Bible to justify slavery, which is in part why the United States was one of the last countries to abolish slavery in the Americas. https://t.co/Haya95ndsw
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) June 20, 2023
1. Today is a good day to remember: America was built on the enslavement of Black people.
2. Our government has never even formally apologized, let alone sought to repair the harms slavery inflicted and perpetuated.
3. So this
is a lie. https://t.co/YPvl7Hj12q
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) June 20, 2023
*stares in historian* https://t.co/1UGS3yxhyX
— Thomas Lecaque (@tlecaque) June 19, 2023
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, 36 years before the US did with the 13th amendment. The Republic of Texas reinstated slavery when it revolted against Mexico. https://t.co/3zUeHNhC7p
— Michael Paarlberg (@MPaarlberg) June 19, 2023