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Originally Posted by champstark
Yeah, when you own someone they are your property to do with as you please and the evil government better not take them away from you! FREEDOM!
I don't mean to belabor the point, but consider the first verse of the popular Confederate anthem, "Bonnie Blue Flag."
Quote:
We are a band of brothers and native to the soil,
Fighting for the property we gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far,
Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star.
Emphasis mine. What property? What's honest about the toil? Yes yes, I know most common soldiers were poor white non-slaveholders, but this is still very telling about the "Dixie" mindset that is still very much part of the cultural lexicon.
And arguably, I think is very much part of the mindset of certain pro-business types ("job creators," anyone?) who insist that they are effectively kings of their industries and their employees the serfs (and hence are "self-entitled lazy whiners" if they want fair wages, collective bargaining, birth control coverage, etc). They believe they're the ones who worked the hardest, perhaps the only ones who
really worked, and hence they are entitled to the largest share of the pie.