Aclion wrote:Iridencia wrote:When Europeans sailed to Africa to buy and/or capture black people for slaves and then continued to forcibly breed them with each other in America for the sake of having more black people to make into more slaves, ain't none of them were holding their wrist to their forehead and going, "Oh, woe is me! How unfortunate that I have been forced into this troublesome situation!"
That's literally the background for Amazing Grace....
The literal background was an uninvolved person who looked at slavery and disliked it, not the slave-traders throwing themselves a pity-party about how hard and sad it is to have to kidnap and brutalize people. People who enslave others don't get all teary-eyed about it, because they are not the fucking victims here, they're the ones actively making the choice to be shitty to other people for their own profit. You're painting this image unironically: