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[pecunium]

dKos has some scary stuff.

Cary Christian

Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.
Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.

"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.

Which makes one wonder what the, "Southern" side is? (pace to those readers from the South who take offense, this is the way they paint you, not the way I do).

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.

Makes me wonder what all those damned abolitionists were against?

Oh that's right, they were moralising do-gooders, and Puritans, who wanted to force a narrow interpretation of the Bible on the poor South. Heck, it's worse than that, they were liberals.

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[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence...
...Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care.

As a Southerner, all I can say is--NOT

It was bad. It was wrong. And Jim Crow was both wrong and stupid. Get over it.

I note there's no mention of the laws against teaching slaves to read and write, or the state laws requiring freed slaves to go and live someplace else, or...well, damn. I suppose all of the justifications of slavery based on the inferior qualities of the African race I've read were just figments of my imagination, right? I guess Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner were hallucinating, along with Harriet Tubman, right? Because armed rebellions against and smuggling escaped slaves out from such a benign system were just plain stupid.

You know, I'm descended from slave-owners and Confederate veterans. It was wrong. They shouldn't have done it. I can see how and why it happened, but it was wrong. Understanding it doesn't make it cool. Now, shall we just deal with the world we have, instead of lying to ourselves about the world they had, or shall we make things worse for ourselves.

And thank you for the food porn, even if I doubt I can get the exact same cherries around here.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but I might be persuaded to send you some.

I see, looking at the website TJ's locations that they plan to open one in Silver Spring, MD, which I can add to the best coffee in the U.S., and a whole foods, for when I am in that part of the world and want comfot foods.

If you want to make it, get a tart, not a sweet, cherry. Dried, of course, and add small handful.

As for Cary, well we know that it's evil, and that they are aiming at the fallacy of equivalence (that two views, if presented side by side much each have some validity) as a way to show how wicked the world is.

One of the parents said the pamphlet was a good thing, because in the public schools they only get one version of things, and that isn't education, it's indoctrination. The same arguement gets made in regards to the Intelligent Design argument (if one finds a watch there must have been a watchmaker, and life is far more complex than a watch, ergo... Q.E.D. evolution can't have happened).

And by teaching with this method, the ability of the students to reject obvious pap is decreased, but I am at risk of ranting, so I'll stop.

TK

TK

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

What happens if I use some frozen pie cherries, instead of dried ones? Aside from needing mor time for the reduction, I mean.

As for the rest-- *moan* *Sigh*

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It won't work right. You need the concentration that comes from being dried.

Think grapes versus raisins.

TK

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

It's the gradual indoctrination that is so scary. Plant a seed here, put a wedge in there, and slowly amp it up to where you'll wake up one day, and evolution never happened, and having slaves is OK again.

I've read some of the Dominionist literature, and that is how they are going about it- they call it the 'one bite at a time' approach. If there's evil in the world, it's people like these. The only way to fight it is to spit out the bites, fill in the holes, and uproot the seedlings. Push back.

Sunfell

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

The only other option (which calls for the controlled application of swords and gunpowder) is less than effective, or palatable.

I am tempted to let them have thier Utopia, save that they wish to force me to reside in it, and we might get to those laws which need to be torn down.

TK

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I was looking at some books at Amazon where they predict a civil war in the US within the next 10-30 years. I wouldn't be a bit surprised, but very saddened that our once great country had decayed to that level of interaction.

I feel the same way about this fake-Utopia they want to create: leave me out of it.

Sunfell