@leyonhjelm@Baron_Rotterdam@ChristiJunior@PorkCow@Ricotta@issdeinschnitzel@realcaseyrollins i think they could have overcome that if enough people had gone. They didn't have enough people to hold the land against the natives and were quickly overwhelmed. In the 1870s they didn't need a whole lot of book-learning, just builders and farmers. The smart ones could have governed it and taught the others, and the dumb ones could have done the massive amounts of manual labor that was required. They just didn't get a big enough population or enough support to keep it going unfortunately.
The saddest thing is that Liberia could have been a huge success and improved conditions for all Africans, but it was smothered in its infancy. I was never wild about the idea of forcing people to go there, but with the proper backing, people would have gone willingly en masse. A tragedy really.
@Grandtheftautism@Baron_Rotterdam@PorkCow@Ricotta@issdeinschnitzel@leyonhjelm@realcaseyrollins A lot of anti-racist canon has become Problematic for various reasons. Hell, you get a lot of SJWs talking shit about what backwards beliefs the 1840s and 1850s abolitionists had, because Tumblrtards are obviously the superior advocates for "social justice" compared to people at times risking life and limb for the cause.
@realcaseyrollins@ChristiJunior@PorkCow@leyonhjelm@issdeinschnitzel@Baron_Rotterdam@Ricotta I get in the case of Trump supporters aiming to "own" the insult and by that turning it into a "badge of honor", since by then the insult loses all it's social power. I do not get black people calling themselves the n-words only to act all offended when someone outside their demographic group says it. It's kinda hypocritical in my view.
If you can't even accurately quote a historical or literary text where the nigger word is used, you have a problem. Banning words is dumb, memory holing words is way worse still.