that doesn’t lessen the evil of conservatives owning other human
Nobody is disputing that. The thought is that comparing the plantation itself as a conduit of slavery is dishonest, as a plantation’s primary function was harvesting cotton or rice. That could be, and very much was, done by wage laborers and not exclusively slaves.
The sole purpose of concentration camps was the extermination of undesirable demographics.
It’s dishonest to compare them as the original post did.
It’s closer to compare the annihilation of the native Americans to the Holocaust.
However, that doesn’t lessen the evil of conservatives owning other human being under chattel slavery.
Nobody is disputing that. The thought is that comparing the plantation itself as a conduit of slavery is dishonest, as a plantation’s primary function was harvesting cotton or rice. That could be, and very much was, done by wage laborers and not exclusively slaves.
The sole purpose of concentration camps was the extermination of undesirable demographics.
It’s dishonest to compare them as the original post did.