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When I slaved in the garden, Acrasia played slave-owner in the sun,
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If the slave-owner analogy is anything to go by, Zižek probably thinks this is worse than being the worst kind of bloodsucking banking boss, driving the immoral system to its inevitable demise.
Slavoj Zižek's animated ideas about charity are simplistic and soulless | Jonathan Glennie
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But the author of the Declaration of Independence was also a slave-owner, holding himself above other men and women.
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For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia in Brazil he defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered "No."
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind
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For instance, early in the voyage at Bahia in Brazil he defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered "No."
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Glenn Beck Wrong on Darwin: How Evolution Affirms the Oneness of Humankind
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I would be surprised if less than 1/3rd of Whites couldn't find at least one slave-owner ancestor in the last 400 years.
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Many of its older churches were funded in part by profits from the slave trade, and the nation's most famous Episcopalian, George Washington, was a slave-owner.
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Mind you, if you want to get very long term I feel confident in stating that every single human alive today has at least one slave-owner ancestor.
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Of importance is the fact that infants that were abandoned were usually not the children of slaves, since the children of all slaves were the property of the slave-owner, and it made little sense for the slave-owner to allow valuable property to be discarded.
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In a feudal or slave system the value of men as a source of military power and prestige or as contributors to the bodily comfort of the landlord or slave-owner often resulted in the displacement of horses by men.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society
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