Teed Rockwell
1 min readMar 29, 2022

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One of your favorite arguments is to point out that a particular injustice is classist, and then argue that this proves that it wasn’t racist. That’s rather like saying that something can’t be a dog because it’s actually a mammal. That’s what you’re doing here, and have done elsewhere.

another one of your favorite fallacies, cherry-picking, is also present in this comment. You select the quote about white people picking cotton after slavery was abolished, and say you don’t know whether white people picked cotton before then. However, the link you attach answers that question in the negative, in a sentence you didn’t let yourself see.

“With the rising global demand for cotton — and thus, slaves — in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed.”

Johnny Silvercloud I thought you might enjoy this.

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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