Capitalism is the hellspawn of feudalism which is inherently authoritarian so we shouldn’t be surprised but thank you for saying the quiet part out loud.

He was detained by the CBSA during what he thought was a routine check-in.

He was then informed that his asylum claim was rejected.

His wife was required to post a $4000 immigration bond so that he did not remain in detention until deportation.

He has no criminal record. CBC is using the term “bail” loosely here.

Why accept one refugee claim and turn away the rest of the family then? Does it make sense to seperate a child from his mother? They should have just rejected the whole family according to your logic.

This is true wisdom.

It’s important to remember that all of America benefited economically from the slave trade.

Illinois had de facto slavery (indentured servitude) and, after the territory was acquired from the French, many slaves were kept in bondage based on prior treaties.

Chicago was built as a trading hub for shipping Southern cotton, sugar, and tobacco to Eastern markets and Europe. So while the value of labor was most apparently stolen in the south, middlemen in Chicago got their cut of that stolen value.

Finally, Illinois farmers sold massive amounts of corn, pork, and beef to Southern plantations. Plantations in the South devoted essentially all of their agricultural capacity to cash crops so they needed to be fed by the Midwest to remain viable. This arrangement allowed the nation as a whole to maximize the value it derived from slavery.

Up the escalation ladder we go, as instigated by Israel. They’ve already bombed Qatar’s LNG plant which is the biggest in the world.

You’re absolutely right, the scale of the transatlantic slave trade was greater than ever before seen in human history.

Somewhere between 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 died on the journey alone.

One needs to also be aware that slavery as practiced by modern Western colonial empires was even more cruel than how slavery was practiced traditionally even dating back to antiquity.

In most of the world historically slavery was often contingent and there were several pathways to manumission (freedom). It was not an inherited status by default (partus sequiter ventrum).

The Western colonial empires very much perceived the entire world according to a race based caste system where Europeans were the highest caste and those of African descent were the lowest. Complexion defined your worth as a person. They spread this worldview globally, which has poisoned so many minds, and the world is still recovering from it to this day.

America adopted and upheld this race based caste system until the civil rights act passed in the 1960s (within the lifetimes of many of parents/grandparents). During the American era of slavery, slaves had no legal rights. They did not have personhood. Children of slaves were automatically also slaves from birth. Slaves could be grieviously injured or killed with impunity. They were seen as property, or livestock.

This is not how slavery was practiced historically around the world.

In fact, even ancient Greece and Rome (both of which thrived on slavery) had more legal protections and pathways to freedom. Slavery was not race based. In many cases, they had earnings and could eventually buy their freedom. In Rome they could be set free by an owner and become Roman citizens.

None of this is taught in American history likely because the ruling class worries it would hurt the average person’s national pride and their ability to exert control over them. But the truth is no society can improve without honestly reflecting on their past so I hope there will be some that read this and learn.

I don’t think anyone is arguing that on a global scale though colonial/Western powers did decimate Africa and continue to engage in neocolonialism there.

But if we’re talking about American history we need to be transparent about the fact that this was a nation that was an apartheid state until about half a century ago and the consequences of that reverberate to the present day.

Clearly you haven’t read Leveraging white guilt over the Holocaust to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity by Benjamin Netanyahu

Not mutually exclusive though I can understand how the West’s experience has led them to that conclusion.

Though there are many scientists in the West that are religious.

One has to understand that the purpose of prayer and community isn’t necessarily to improve material circumstances.