Funny how little has changed in terms of the grievance-bait.

"Pious divines and tender-hearted poetesses" is 18th century speak for virtue signalers and snowflakes.
Reposted from Adam H Johnson
when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.

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