Sure, and I was using the example of the UK getting special blame to compare that to the US getting special blame. The US had slavery, but so did every other country in the world, up to a certain point. There were slaves in Africa, too, millions of white ones as well.
That's the point.
The 1619 project is an a-historical narrative to push a false agenda, not "education."
Yes, exactly. What about them? What about their impact?
Of course it is. You can't say the US has some special guilt that we have to atone for, when it was the normal practice in the entire world, and every race was subjected to it. Why aren't folks troubling Brazil over their slavery? They had more slaves than the US, and they kept it going a generation longer. But, the focus is on the US.
It's not a strawman. It's a reasonable person being sick and tired of the Left constantly moralizing and pontificating over bullshit.
He is absolutely right. If you and I were alive in 1800, we would be racist. Everyone was racist. Blacks were racist. Whites were racist. Abolitionists were racist. It's not a uniquely white thing, and that's what the Left and the 1619 project and the Woke crowd seek to do - they seek to make it a white thing. It is not.