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This is what is bothering me when it comes to this particular topic, people saying ~everyone had slavery~ while disregarding numerous differences for trivializing the past crimes against humanity.
Every country has factory workers but does a factory worker in China has the same rights, income and status with a factory worker in Norway, surely not.
It bothers me too a little but in a way I understand it. To be perfectly honest it's similar to when black people point out "there's crime in every race" when someone mentions crimes that are more relevant to our group. It's a defense mechanism. Usually when you're looking up slavery, you're more than likely either apart of the ethnic groups involved or you are in the region it took place. Not everyone can handle seeing the ugly truths of their history or people, whether it be from a victim or oppressor's point of view, many will broaden the scope, because it lessens the focus and the significance, something you're more likely to benefit from if you have an attachment to the topic.
But also I think it's because of the nature of the conversations. Few people are trying to learn and understand. They're either trying to demean another group or deflect their own issues, which hinders progression in my opinion. When people say, "there's crime in every race", it takes away the chance to learn why, how, and what stimulates the particular crimes in the particular communities, thus keeping us from finding real solutions. When people say "everyone had slavery", they are too missing the specific lessons and conditions of the region that lead to their version of the practice.
"Blacks sold each other too" is a good one that's used a lot. But what you miss by taking this at face value is that slavery spurred by tribal incentives lead to a much different application of slavery than one spurred by race and economics. White Americans didn't follow this model. Though they had plenty of poor White Americans they could've enslaved, they chose to puchrase black slaves instead. And though it may be hard to imagine any positives coming out of American slavery, there was a certain unity that was maintained through their evil racial viewpoint, and "American pride" was still preserved in a way. Had they chose to come back to America and enslave each other, there's a good chance they America today wouldn't be that much better than Africa today due to lack of unity and pride, which is littered all over American history in good and bad ways. You miss that if you just lump and generalize slavery as a whole.