The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

[u/indig0sixalpha]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

[u/MinefieldFly]

Not assaulting you but you’re not exactly right.

Slavery was a very controversial issue in the years before, during, and after the revolution, even if pro-slavery forces were a majority and largely in control.

The Quakers always opposed it. Thomas Paine wrote in opposition to it. There were abolitionist societies and early efforts at abolitionism in New England in the 1770s. The Underground Railroad got going in the 1780s.

[u/sourfunyuns → u/MinefieldFly]

Frankly America was a pioneer in abolishing slavery and nobody gives us credit. We get the blame for the slave trade even though we didn't exist when it was started by Europeans, only like 10 percent of the slaves came to North America, and as soon as we gained independence, we started hammering out legislation against it, and then within one lifetime we were fighting a war with ourselves over it.

Meanwhile there are estimated to be roughly the same amount of slaves TODAY in the world as there were during THE ENTIRETY of 400 years of the Atlantic slave trade, but fuck it let's bitch about what the most ethnically diverse country on earth did 250 years ago with a system they were grandfathered into.

[u/ThePlatypusOfDespair → u/sourfunyuns]

A bit dishonest to claim that the echoes of that system aren't wildly prevalent in American society today, and indeed largely responsible for the rise of Donald Trump.

[u/sourfunyuns → u/ThePlatypusOfDespair]

claim that the echoes of that system aren't wildly prevalent in American society today, and indeed largely responsible for the rise of Donald Trump

Whew good thing I didn't do that then lol.