Canadian Politics Today

You seem to be trying to equate giving a slave a bite to eat and a place to lay their head at night with "pay" as a way of masking the reality of the situation. I suspect a lot of slaves would have preferred to actually get paid and fend for themselves outside of work.

Slavery was an international institution. Early America had slaves who were white and black. They started out being required to serve their slavery for a given period of time, usually because of crime or to pay off their travel fee or something. There were black slave owners in the early days. It eventually morphed into the kind of slavery where slaves were transported from Africa for that purpose, but I've seen nothing which says the Us couldn't have gotten along with them. Certainly by the time of the civil war the country to the north felt it had no need of them.

But using all this as a means of demonizing white people is moronic. Slavery has been around a lot longer than America, or, for that matter, any of the countries which now exist in Europe. People might look up the origin of the US navy and marine corps. They were built to fight North African slavers who were raiding American ships and taking American citizens as slaves. Prior to that they'd been raiding British ships but the Royal Navy put a stop to that in their usual bloody way by bombarding and burning the cities the ships came from, so they turned on easier prey.

As I've already pointed out, your pathetic attempt at demonizing white people by shouting SLAVERY makes even less sense than most of your idiotic beliefs. Africans took and kept slaves. North Africans most especially did. People have been taking slaves for eons. The only thing whites did new was to end it.

Your hatred of white people blinds you to historical truths.

What? You don't think it's a great deal to exchange your personal autonomy and freedom for food, clothing, and shelter?

We do that all the time.  Security costs money.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/william-mcnally-school-president-a-culprit-as-truth-gets-trumped-at-laurier

A contrary point of view from mine, to get back to the topic.

If it is a contrary view to yours please explain what you find objectionable about it. And how it differs from yours.

On July 31, the Globe and Mail published an op-ed by Deborah MacLatchy, president of Wilfrid Laurier University, titled “Not merely free speech, but better speech needs to be protected on campus.”

She states, “The real exchange of ideas takes place in an atmosphere that both respects experiences and is grounded in evidence…” This is a dog whistle to post-modern disciplines that privilege “lived experience,” reject reason as a white, patriarchal construct, reject the scientific method and, ultimately, reject the notion of truth.