SlaveryFine for somebody else

http://www.fredoneverything.net/slavery2.shtml

Growing up on the edge of the Deep South (and 'deep' does not indicate how profoundly the natives think), the subject of the "unpleasantness" of the mid-19th century would come up from time to time. Many of my friends would point out that 90 percent of the Southerners didn't own slaves. I do not know if the figure was that high, but even if it was, they benefitted from slavery and willingly fought in a war to preserve the "peculiar institution."

Even today, every time we go to Wal-Mart, we benefit from the labors of Chinese slaves. The "global economy" is nothing more than the exportation of slavery to places where we do not have to see it.

I like Fred Reed's line about hypocrisy being the natural condition of mankind. I was telling someone this just the other day. It's why even if Jesus Christ was/is not the Son of God, his teachings resonate through the ages. That's because he was continually exposing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and others of the ruling classes of that era.