Comment by Panjam

This is true. It's also 'whataboutery'. Slavery was always abhorrent, and the fact it was and is widely practiced does not excuse its beneficiaries. What is interesting is that I don't think you are deploying this rhetorical trick as a means to persuade others, so much as to make yourself feel better about something: to assuage some sort of cognitive unease. Contrast this with the author of the article: she owns it. That is absolute moral bravery.