Posted on Nov 13, 2017
Right-wing news website humiliated after defending US by rewriting the history of slavery
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The US made slavery illegal 65 years before the civil war and Saudi Arabia banned it a century before Saudi Arabia existed
And the supposedly serous Federalist published this bilge
And the supposedly serous Federalist published this bilge
Right-wing news website humiliated after defending US by rewriting the history of slavery
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The article is back up. I have not checked it in its entirety to make sure there are not any other mistakes but it has been edited to correct the mistakes noted in the RawStory link. The Federalist article has a note at the bottom of the it stating that the incorrect dates were due to "an HTML list formatting glitch."
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/13/united-states-history-slavery-racism-worse-countries/
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/13/united-states-history-slavery-racism-worse-countries/
Is The U.S. History Of Slavery, Racism Worse Than Other Countries'?
Slavery and racism are global problems as old as humanity itself. By notable measures, the United States is among the most advanced countries.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Html for mating errors would not and could not account for the incorrect dates. Just with how they are presented. A lie designed to take advantage of a majorities ignorance of the subject
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr - I do not know enough about HTML formatting to know if it is true or not, just that is what they claimed the error was due to. Seeing as I find other factual errors on their website at least every other week you are probably correct that someone made up the dates without checking them but not knowing that 1865 was when slavery was outlawed in the US seems a little far-fetched to me so I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt in this case.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
If the errors were on obtuse subjects I might agree but they were not misreading they were outright lies nit matters of interpolation but silly delusions. The US ending slaver in the wrong cetruty was not the most idiotic of the errors. Perhaps they need to get a susseful graduate of Elementary school to edit. This kid of fact distortion in support of out history of slavery is not usually and is a well known form of propaganda
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This is why we should be hesitant to believe any story from any "journalist" from any media organization. These folks went to school to learn how to write and not necessarily to convey facts. They are not historians or diplomats or leaders of industry...they just write like they are. ("I'm not a ..., I just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express!") Even if this writer was meaning to mention the "first" "anti-slavery" laws (Slave Trade Act of 1794) in the U.S., he was still wrong, by 3 years. And before you get on your high horse, just realize, that this kind of journalism spans the entire political spectrum.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
the both sides do it argument is getting tired, finding liberals that stridently and dishonestly defend American slavery is nearly impossible
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PO1 Don Gulizia
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - Journalism, in general. But you always try to narrow the lens of stupidity to focus on one side. "Yellow" journalism isn't limited to just one topic, by just one side.
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