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“[Fitzroy] defended and praised slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered ‘No.’ I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answers of slaves, in the presence of their master was worth anything. This made him excessively angry … I thought that I should have been compelled to leave the ship … But after a few hours Fitz-Roy showed his usual magnanimity … with an apology and a request that I would continue to live with him.”
The Myth of the Benevolent Slave Owner | by Scott Burdick | Medium
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Es stimmt, dass Freihandel und Globalisierung unterm Strich mehr Wohlstand schafft als Abschottung. Alle profitieren. Aber diejenigen, die die Regeln machten und die beste Ausgangslage hatten, profitierten etwas mehr. Also: wir.
Die Globalisierung war immer beides, im besten Interesse aller und im besonderen Interesse des Westens. Man sieht das jetzt: Es bleibt wahr, dass Globalisierung im besten Interesse aller ist.
Erschütterungen Der Weltgewissheit
Jonas Schaible
narcissists crave and need external validation,
Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare
Shahida Arabi
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