“I cannot answer that question in open session” is equivalent to saying “Yes”, and thus is not a proper response.
That’s not exactly an unbiased reading of the circumstances of Turner’s rebellion. But let’s look at some other slave rebellions in the US: Gabriel Prosser’s, Igbo Landing, Chatham Manor, German Coast, Cherokee Nation, and John Brown’s – what about these? Were these not legitimate?
What was the morally correct way for a slave to behave in the decades before 1860?
Dude, you should have put a United Way update or something between “‘Just Following Orders’ is a valid defense to everything” and “Oh, gee, I dunno if I could follow an order to execute someone who had been convicted of a capital crime”.
Everyone remember this comment. Smapti believes MLK Jr. was wrong to commit civil disobedience.
What if civil disobedience was integral to achieving Civil Rights?
Nonsense. It is the proper answer whether the true answer is “Yes” or “No”, and thus is equivalent to neither and conveys no information whatsoever.
Everyone remember this one too – Smapti excuses Nazi concentration camp guards, slave overseers, and a million others who have taken part in atrocities over the years of human history.
Based on your statements, Smapti, you seem to be a dangerous human to be close to. I’m not sure how anyone could ever trust you if they knew you believed these things.
According to the article you yourself cited;
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Turner was highly intelligent, and learned how to read and write at a young age. He grew up deeply religious and was often seen fasting, praying or immersed in reading the stories of the Bible… He frequently had visions, which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life. For instance, when Turner was 21 years old he ran away from his owner, Samuel Turner, but returned a month later after becoming delirious from hunger and receiving a vision that told him to “return to the service of my earthly master.” In 1824, while working in the fields under his new owner, Thomas Moore, Turner had his second vision, in which “the Saviour was about to lay down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and the great day of judgment was at hand.”
On August 13, 1831, an atmospheric disturbance made the Sun appear bluish-green. Turner took this as the final signal, and began the rebellion a week later on August 21. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing all the white people they encountered.
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No, because they failed.
To obey his master.
Shut the fuck up and pick the goddamn cotton, one surmises. Until Whitey feels good and ready and magnanimous enough to kick your ass to the curb. I’m sorry, I meant give you Freedom. Back.
It conveys that to answer the question truthfully would involve divulging classified information. Since the absence of information cannot be classified, an answer of anything other than “No” equals “Yes”.
This is a vile statement.
Another one to remember – to Smapti, slaves who disobeyed their masters were behaving in an immoral manner. Think about Smapti when you read about the countless slave women who were raped.
If a man is shot, you do not imprison the gun. You imprison the man who pulled the trigger.
What difference is there between a man who is ordered to perform a task by his superior, and a tool which is employed by its wielder to complete a task? There is none; both are acting on the impulse of another, not on their own conscience or what they would wish to do if allowed to choose for himself.
For posterity: according to Smapti, it was morally wrong and illegitimate for slaves in the US to try and rise up and free themselves by force.
As I recall, raping one’s slaves was illegal everywhere in the antebellum south.
This is precisely why the correct answer is “I cannot answer that question in open session” or “I can neither confirm nor deny ” or words to that effect, regardless of whether or not revealing the actual answer would compromise security. PTtKUWtC.
(Geez, before long “Please Try to Keep Up With the Class” is going to be attached to Smapti-responses as inescapably as “Peace Be Upon Him” is attached to a pious Muslim’s references to the Prophet.)
Apparently your history teacher should have tried invoking the mantra:
I’m going to have to go with a big NOPE on that.
One is a tool, which can’t make a choice, and one is a person, which can. Some people actually did disobey orders during various atrocities, and actually saved lives. Disobeying evil orders should be encouraged. You would discourage this, which is morally reprehensible.
They were wrong because they failed. If they had succeeded they would have been right.
It is not the place of the gun to judge the moral character of that at which it has been aimed.
You recall wrong, especially because chattel had no legal rights to resist, nor legal recourse if victimized. A master had the legal right to order his slave into his bed, and the legal right to order her to submit to his advances.
Might makes right?