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That’s lowkey awesome
The lead in the paint and who tf knows what else (eg covered up arsenic paint or wallpaper) is in that smoke. Seriously avoid breathing in smoke from home fires, it has unfathomably deadly stuff in it
Why do so many people talk like this post is about whether or not you should burn these down or not? Or how they should be maintained?
Girls saw the burning plantation and took a selfie for the symbolic value of it. I don’t see them argue that people should destroy the historical evidence, or anything. They just took a strong symbolic Image and if you don’t like the symbolism in it, you are a weirdo.
Can we just appreciate their picture? Think about its symbolism?
And maybe then we can have the discussion about what to do with these things. People with no knowledge could start with listening. And if needed, they can add their perspective afterwards.
Hell ya let that thing burn! So happy for the people and the country. They should be proud of themselves.
Ok now that y’all read thus far. Auschwitz, Alcatraz and a myriad insane asylums not burner down for very good reasons. But an old slave plantation and we’re all smiles…
That plantation, Nottoway, explicitly presented itself as romantic. When I visited, they had an exhibit about how kindly the old master was, because he gave the slave children candy at Christmas.
It’s a place for rich white people to have weddings at, while being served by underpaid black people who are probably descendants of the people held there. They sold cotton in the gift shop - it was a sugarcane plantation. That’s something you do on fucking purpose.
If you want a place that understands that it is Americans Auschwitz - Whitney Plantation. Amazing place that everyone in the American south should visit.
You can tell what their priorities are because the History section of their webpage had nothing in it but the age of the trees on the property.
Because goyim aren’t having weddings at auschwitz. If the plantations were treated as relics of antebellum brutality we wouldn’t celebrate their incineration, but instead they’re romanticized.
I don’t like this as a “stick it to em” thing. Personally, I want to see those women own that entire plantation, and transform it into a haven for the black community. If that means tearing it down, so be it. I want them to own that shit. I want the slave owning twats to be rolling in their graves over, not just a black person, but a black woman owning their shit.
That said, amazing selfie lol
More burnt plantations please! We can put them out with confederate tears.
too late I drunked em’ all 😔
This is so incredibly stupid. We might aswell cripple most of the food production and burn down entire cities since most of the America and farms used to have some form of slavery or racism. Was that building still used for slavery, or did they just attack innoncent people and damaged their own food supply + economy? Like… why? What is one good thing you accomplished while causing 5 bad things?
EDIT: Note that I’m not from US so might be missing more context, but where I live, we usually don’t burn down historic buildings or museums because they host bad history. In fact, they’re protected by law as a culturally significant objects so others could learn.
Sorry man you don’t know shit
Good and well thought out argument, your comment definitely made me support burnings of historical places. I had to check if Im on reddit
Its as if auswitch administrative building was preserved in its peak state, had all its history scrubbed and added an option to host weddings with era approperiate costumes since the people weren’t actually gassed there.
It wasn’t a museom, it was whitewashing slavery.
And besides this is america. There are business signs in europe older than that building.
Using historical objects where peasants were banned from, to now allowing those that were banned to explore and utilize said objects freely? The horror. What do you think happens in every historical castle around the world? Should Chinese burn down forbidden city? The building isn’t even owned by the same family anymore, but some attorney and was added to historical buildings registry. The owner already said he hopes to rebuild it as it was both a reminder of brutal history of chattel slavery and economical drive (tourism) to the region.
Good job fighting the history, you really showed them, I’m sure the people in graves feel very insulted.
Are you under the impression that the girls in the photo burned down the plantation, or are you unaware of the history of such buildings in this nation, what they symbolize, and why the descendants of those brutalized in the shadow of those white pillars might be happy to see it burned down?
Nobody went and burned down the plantation because of its history. (Unless this turns out to be arson, which I would find entirely justifiable.)
The plantation burned down, and some folks are rightly rejoicing in the destruction of a nexus of brutality and harm.
If rich young descendants of nazis were getting married in auschwitz on the regular, I think that wouldn’t sit well with some folks, so I’m certainly not going to shed any tears about all the rich young white women who will have to find a better place to serve as the backdrop of their weddings.
Or is that that you don’t know what “early” means in this context? It would have been even more satisfying if it had waited a couple of weeks to burn down.
Note that I’m not from US so might be missing more context
This was a great film, and might lend some needed perspective.
I mean, if millions of people were killed as part of genocide in that building, I’m sure no one would think of hosting events there, but you’re comparing two vastly different things. The abuse that happened in that building is awful, but stop comparing it to genocide you goofball
EDIT: And no, I never said the girls themselves burned it and then took a selfie of the crime lol. I’m talking about people who do not see the problem with burning down historical places and are expressing their will to do it or support towards it.
As a german i am rather sure there are enough nutjobs that would like to marry in a historic concentration camp in ss uniforms
The abuse that happened in that building is awful, but stop comparing it to genocide you goofball
Yeah, you clearly lack context and understanding (or maybe just empathy for) the brutality and scope of american slavery, and I’ve tried about as much as I am willing to to help you understand. The fact that it was less, uh, concentrated to specific sites makes it no less horrific, and you seem to have some huge misconceptions regarding its scope. Good day to you.
If it was a museum about the horrors of slavery you’d have a point, the problem is this was a resort. They were still literally profiting off of slavery…
Wait till you learn about half of the hotel resort histories. Many of them use castles and palaces that were just as mean towards slaves.
Transforming something with bad history into a hotel or resort is something that happens all the time, everywhere.
I mean, there is literally haunted hotels tourism, and those buildings have commonly seen some really dark stuff.
In my country, there is a prison hotel where I can spend a night in a building where my kind used to be… well, it’s history, so people like visiting those places, including me.
Should we burn them all?
