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re: Au contraire.

"The history of the lily-white, Protestant, Anglophonic Americans, and their experience with Africans and European labor bears this out."

Do you count their initial experience as a source of slaves for North Africa long before the American slave trade, or is that a phase of history that's best left out?

Slavery ended, in the end, worldwide, both because of "lily-white, Protestant, Anglophonic Anglo-Americans" (and other European) moral development and because of their technological progress in harnessing cheaper forms of brute force energy -- steam engines, for example. It didn't end because of Chinese culture, or Hindu culture, or Islamic culture, or Eskimo culture.

So a little more accurate history here, and a little less race-based sneering, please.

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