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Bitterly disappointed

Revisado: 01-07-22

Bitterly disappointed, and I say this as a huge Douglas Kruger fan, owning (except for his first novel recently released) every book he’s ever written. Some of them I’ve read multiple times.

This as a result of the discussion relating to slavery in the beginning of the book, where he relies on Dinesh D’Souza’s assertion that there is no evidence that republicans owned slaves the year before the civil war, therefore, all slaves were owned by democrats and slavery was only perpetrated by democrats. Dinesh D’Souza then asserts that it’s possible to refute this claim by showing evidence of a republican that owned a slave.

Only, it’s not, which is why this has been made in such a clever way.

To refute this claim the following assumptions have to be assumed as correct:

1. All people at the time were either democrat or republican. This is not even a requirement in all states in America today. A quick look at the voter registration form confirms this.
2. All people who owned slaves had registered to vote, clearly indicating their party affiliation. Even today, all people who are eligible to vote don’t do so.
3. There are 100% accurate records of who slave owners were, which slaves they owned and it’s possible to link this to voter registration so that this can now be verified, 160 years after the fact.
4. Slavery, a practice (that existed in America since 1619) was the fault purely of democrats, a party that was only established in it’s current form around 1828, more than 200 years after the practice had started.

These inferences and the reliance on the view of one person (no one else is cited as having proved the statement to be correct nor has D’Souza provided evidence to confirm what he claims is a fact) are egregious that I can’t even bring myself to listen to the rest of the book.

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