Slavery
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes
American Optimist 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Slavery, every show
Hughes: Universal Abolitionist Principle First Originated in 18th-Century West
“But where do you get the first abolitionist sentiment? In other words, the first principle of slavery is wrong for all time, no matter who you are. You get that in the West. You get that in America and in Britain in the 18th century. You know, from Quakers and…”
Hughes: America's Founding Hypocrisy Acted as Forcing Mechanism Against Slavery
“It's much better to have that forcing mechanism of hypocrisy because you have good principles than to have no principles that actually force attention with slavery to begin with.”
Hughes: Slavery was practiced globally across every continent for 10,000 years
“Slavery is, is, is an institution that's been practiced on every inhabited continent, for about 10,000 years.”
Hughes: Using public policy to undo slavery's legacy creates new discrimination
“However, I think there's an attempt there's a desire by some to use the levers of public policy to undo the effects of slavery. And this is a dangerous fantasy. I think people have the idea that you know, everything that Whatever you include under the legacy o…”
White supremacy was developed as an intellectual rationale to justify slavery
“And as part of that historical institution of slavery, they developed a companion ideology to justify that system. And that companion ideology has some explicit words, but the words are real. They're called white supremacy because they had to justify how can y…”
Aristotle theorized that automation could eliminate the need for slavery
“In one remarkable passage, Aristotle starts to muse on the old myths of Hephaestus, making these golden women to help him in his shop, and the traveling carts that Fed the gods and then returned, and a bank of bellows for his forge that actually could adjust t…”