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>>david9+(OP)
We are a society whose culture has become unmoored from the values that built it.

>>unname+wy
Have we? The culture and values that built this country are stained in blood, violence, and subjugation. I feel we are actually losing the enlightenment that came afterwards and regressing back.

>>nickth+0B
Like every other country and ethnic group on earth. I don't understand what's so notable about American history in this regard.

>>Alexan+y21
Well only a couple countries participated in the creation of the Atlantic slave trade, and very few in history have engaged in chattel slavery to the scale the USA did.

>>komali+L31
Slavery in the USA was but a tiny fraction of contemporary slavery not to mention historical slavery.

>>throwa+841
Per capita you are wrong. The Atlantic slave trade enslaved 12 million people. An astounding volume of unique and unnecessary misery and evil.