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- 'Benefits of Slavery:' Google's AI Search Gives Ridiculous and Wrong Answers https://gizmodo.com/google-search-ai-answers-slavery-benefits-1850758631 7 comments
- 2 British PMs benefited from slavery, admits Westminster https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/2-british-pms-benefited-from-slavery-admits-westminster/story-rq8dhlj8tvvtohzkbmgzji.html 7 comments worldnews
- DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/ 700 comments moderatepolitics
- DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/ 627 comments politics
- Allen West: Social Security Benefits Are 'A Form Of Modern 21st Century Slavery' http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/08/512579/allen-west-social-security-benefits-are-a-form-of-modern-21st-century-slavery/ 3 comments politics
- Google's AI Bots Tout 'Benefits' of Genocide, Slavery, Fascism, Other Evils https://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-bots-tout-slavery-genocide 86 comments technology
- New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418 184 comments politics
- Benefited from slavery? Critics say some of the state’s examples were never even slaves. https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/07/21/benefited-slavery-critics-say-some-states-examples-were-never-even-slaves/ 552 comments politics
- Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-schools-will-teach-how-slavery-brought-personal-benefit-to-black-people 2614 comments politics
- France/Afrique : 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jecmaus/blog/300114/franceafrique-14-african-countries-forced-france-pay-colonial-tax-benefits-slavery-and-colonization 7 comments europes
- France/Afrique: 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jecmaus/blog/300114/franceafrique-14-african-countries-forced-france-pay-colonial-tax-benefits-slavery-and-colonization 36 comments geopolitics
- 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jecmaus/blog/300114/franceafrique-14-african-countries-forced-france-pay-colonial-tax-benefits-slavery-and-colonization?fbclid=iwar3nvfddauyr4w6ecutxrfqhskz8ptg9rg4etjpnsm7pbkkbvtc1pzteii8 10 comments worldnews
- 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/ 20 comments nottheonion
- 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/ 43 comments worldnews
- 14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax/ 10 comments worldnews
- Olympic Champion Michael Johnson: ‘Slavery Has Benefited Descendants Like Me’ http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/05/olympic-champion-michael-johnson-slavery-has-benefited-descendants-like-me/?utm_medium=vph&utm_source=topvph_sports&utm_campaign=325064 104 comments sports
- DeSantis says Black people benefited from slavery by learning skills like 'being a blacksmith' https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-says-black-people-benefited-from-skills-learned-in-slavery-2023-7 1045 comments politics
- Kamala Harris accuses Florida officials of trying to 'replace history with lies' through new curriculum — Florida's recently approved history standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it provided them with useful skills. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/harris-says-florida-officials-trying-replace-history-lies-new-curricul-rcna95625 142 comments politics
- The Never-Ending Crisis of the Electoral College: The inane system our founders developed to choose the president is an anti-democratic remnant of the slavery era that only benefits the GOP. https://newrepublic.com/article/160162/electoral-college-national-popular-vote 153 comments politics
- Less than 10% of the electorate in Alabama, Georgia and Lousiana elected the representatives who ultimately voted to secede from the US, prompting the Civil War. Legislative malapportionment benefited counties which happened to have large slaveholders. The benefits of slavery went to a small elite. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/political-and-economic-geography-of-southern-secession/798af6c8a988e668b6680e5d8260ed9f/core-reader 267 comments science
- Newly obtained records show that Sen. Mitch McConnell's family benefited from slavery for generations, helping them build lasting wealth. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1727557001?__twitter_impression=true 404 comments politics
- Glasgow University is to launch a "reparative justice programme" after discovering it benefited by tens of millions of pounds from racial slavery. A study by the university into thousands of donations it received in the 18th and 19th Centuries found some were linked to slave trade profits. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45539706 32 comments worldnews
- According to the government of Mexico, throughout the country there are some 2 million day-laborers living under conditions of near slavery without social benefits nor contracts. http://en.institutomanquehue.org/countries/mexico/peasant-protests-over-working-conditions.html#sthash.wgzv91mx.sfju 3 comments worldnews