This Week in Delusional Conservatism: Con writer upset ’12 Years A Slave’ slaves not happy
Conservative writer upset ’12 Years A Slave’ doesn’t show happy slaves
March 5, 2014
By Anomaly
A Conservative writer is upset that the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave displays a negative light on slavery, instead of the happy times. Apparently the author of the article believes that being enslaved is a happy time for those who are taken from their country in chains, their families ripped apart, beaten into submission and forced to work grueling hours in the sun for nothing.
Politix reports, “But that negativity is merely anti-slavery “propaganda,” according to James Bowman in conservative magazine The American Spectator.”
Via American Spectator:
…Yes, there was much cruelty and hardship in the slave-owning South, as there has been in most of the rest of the world most of the time, and Mr. McQueen’s camera is all over that. But it strains ordinary credulity to suppose that there was nothing else.
Mary Noble from Politix asks, “We are wondering, was Bowman equally aggrieved by the lack of happy Jews in Schindler’s List?”
ZING!!!
The Rest: http://freakoutnation.com/2014/03/05/conservative-writer-upset-12-years-a-slave-doesnt-show-happy-slaves/
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and the many fine parties the master threw as the black slave realized he had found his true calling--cared for, comforted, and at times disciplined by his loving white master.
It's embarrassing to be a white person.
Recently I read the "Mammy" stereotype of GWTW obscured the reality of Patsey and the rapists who bought and sold her.
I have to believe that anyone who considers himself a "master" to someone who he considers beneath him is hardly kind! How in the world could he buy and sell another human being and have the brass to refer to himself as kind?
These people like James Bowman are really a special kind of stupid!
What is wrong with this freak?
OKAY...so I must ask...is 'anti-slavery “propaganda"' really reaallly REALLLY such a bad thing? IS anti-nazi propaganda bad?
How about anti-KKK 'propaganda'? Am I in trouble for believing that all KKK members are racist goons? 
and they have to write a certain amount of content, sooner or later they are going to leak internal meeting notes.
The happy side of slavery 
Disgust.
at this person. Revisionist history is very popular these days among the RW base of issa, ryan, cruz, palin, tea baggers, klan and zimpig aficionados. 
I just googled random right-wing names followed by the word "slavery"
Pat Buchanan: http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-brief-for-whitey-969
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Michele Bachman (not directly from her from from a book on a published list called "Michele's Must-Read List"
: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/08/08/michele-bachmann-promoted-bizarre-revisionist-view-of-slavery
African slaves brought to America, he argues, were essentially lucky: "Africa, like any other pagan country, was permeated by the cruelty and barbarism typical of unbelieving cultures." … Wilkins also approvingly cites Lee’s insistence that abolition could not come until "the sanctifying effects of Christianity” had time “to work in the black race and fit its people for freedom."
Ah, the ever misunderstood respect of the whip and the chain. Ah, the poor, misunderstood, antebellum slave owner. Ah, I think I'm going to be sick. Lizza quotes from a Wilkins chapter on race relations:
Slavery, as it operated in the pervasively Christian society which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded upon racial animosity. In fact, it bred on the whole, not contempt, but, over time, mutual respect. This produced a mutual esteem of the sort that always results when men give themselves to a common cause. The credit for this startling reality must go to the Christian faith. . . The unity and companionship that existed between the races in the South prior to the war was the fruit of a common faith.
Glenn Beck: http://www.examiner.com/article/glenn-beck-claims-slavery-was-not-really-bad-until-government-got-involved
Glenn Beck continues to give his loyal listeners American history lessons, and the education they receive from "Beck University" grows more extreme each day. On Friday Beck went on a long rant "explaining" how health care reform is supposedly enslaving the American public. Then, in an attempt to explain the concept, Beck compares health care reform to the American system of slavery. According to Beck, slavery was not really evil and bad until the government stepped in to regulate it. It was at that point that owning people as property and all the other injustices of slavery became something to abhor.
In the audio clip (available by clicking on the video to the left), Beck says that slavery "started with seemingly innocent ideas." Beck goes as far as to say that the evil of slavery did not start with the Atlantic slave trade, but instead it "started in a court room, and then it went to the legislatures." Beck then warns his audience that health care reform might be "creating slaves" just like slaves were supposedly created in the past.
I could do this all day. And we think they're crazies, but lots of people read them and think everything they say is true. Lots of people agree with this. I think this kind of belief is more common than we realize.
