So many people don't understand history and it shows!
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A quick primer on what this lad just learned:
Slavery has been described as 'very important' in medieval Korea, probably more important than in any other East Asian country.
Korean Studies scholar Mark A. Peterson suggests that Korea has the longest unbroken chain of slavery of any society in history, spanning about 1,500 years, which he attributes to a long history of peaceful transitions and stable societies in Korea.
The members of slave class during the Korean dynasties of Goryeo and Joseon (918 - 1897 AD) were called Nobi [노비].
Legally, they held the lowest rank in medieval Korean society just like the slaves and serfs of the Western Hemisphere.
They were also considered as properties, or chattel, and could be bought, sold, or gifted.
As it turns out, slavery has been the norm in every society across the entire world since the dawn of human history!
Only the Christian West overthrew slavery (and with great pains and great cost), sparking a worldwide abolitionist movement based on inherent human rights that continues today.
(England ended the practice mostly because it was expedient to do so, thanks to the decades-long efforts of William Wilberforce, the Clapham Sect, and the wider abolitionist movement, but yes.)
Fact: There are actually more slaves now than at any time in history.
But instead of taking aim at places that still have slaves by the tens of millions, the wokies want you to hate the West, telling us Westerners whose forefathers abolished slavery that we need to "do the work" and "be allies" in order to "decenter" the "whiteness" that has corrupted our institutions with "oppression."
Why is that?
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