[HN Gopher] Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)
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Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)
Author : mike-the-mikado
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-04-27 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (msa.maryland.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (msa.maryland.gov)
| muser8 wrote:
| This has to be the most inaccessible page I've seen in nearly 25
| (30?) years.
| saghm wrote:
| The styling honestly is reminiscent of 90s webpages, so I
| wouldn't find it shocking if it is a couple decades old and
| just hasn't been updated.
| saghm wrote:
| Looking closer at the URL, I realize now it has "2002_09_10"
| in the path. Presumably it was created then and hasn't been
| fully rewritten since, so while not quite 25 years old, it
| seems that might be the reason it doesn't have any recent
| accessibility features.
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| What is inaccessible about a bunch of text on a page? It's
| readable in any kind of viewer you want, and a screen reader or
| a braille display can parse it. Does "accessibility" now mean
| that you have to have a navbar at the top of the screen for
| some reason?
| crazygringo wrote:
| The fact that almost every single link on the page goes to a
| 404, times out, or says Forbidden, might have something to do
| with it.
|
| Or the gigantic, seemingly meaningless URL.
|
| I don't know what this page is, but it doesn't seem to exist
| in any kind of context of a larger website. How did anybody
| even find this in the first place?
| jp57 wrote:
| It looks fine in Safari reader mode. Pretty sure most other
| browsers have something similar.
| travisgriggs wrote:
| The world needs more people like John Wesley.
|
| Sad the heros we choose instead.
| ivape wrote:
| There are plenty of people that have thought like this on all
| kinds of issues from the past and now currently as well. I
| suspect someone like Wesley and the Abolitionists were called
| unrealistic and unpragmatic in their time period, just as
| people who speak out about certain things today are called
| delusional and idealistic. Pacified and moral opinions are very
| much available, you just have to be willing to be part of a
| minority that regularly gets derided as naive.
| ashoeafoot wrote:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Libya
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| Here, all the slavery one can defeat. Tolerated by a culture with
| 2 billion heads. And it is utterly ignored for whatever
| hipocritical reasons. Same in China, were the lower classes from
| the village will be treated like owned air by the rich cityzens.
| All beneath a thin layer of western mimicry.Yet, im supposed to
| ignore the living, for what was back then a battle for the living
| and is today a civil war flag, for the western cultural block,
| the only block that marched with sic sempre tyrannis on the
| barbary cost and fought to better itself. The wingnuttery has to
| end, reality has to be embraced and the atrocities in it fought.
| Wherever they are.
| stogot wrote:
| There are more slaves today than any point in history. Sad but
| true fact we don't think of in modern times.
|
| I recommend donating to the ImJ who help find and free slaves,
| prosecute abusers, and educate and help the victims thrive in
| their freedom
|
| https://www.ijm.org/
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