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the economist sided with the confederacy in the civil war, idk that you're gonna be able to make their Top 100 list of worst shit with ageism and ableism
IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?
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i think the ableism is very economist thing to not even think about but honestly idgaf about "ageism" here in context
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And their reasoning was bullshit too! They incredibly overstated the importance of the cotton economy to Britain!
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Also by the end of the 1860s the Suez Canal was open and Egyptian cotton basically replaced American cotton because it was cheaper, easier to ship and wasn't produced by slaves