• crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    This is exactly how I feel whenever I hear someone has visited one of those places, and they are like “yeah but what a beautiful house it was” 😑

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      I mean now it’s gone it’s just easier to deny it ever happened because there’s less physical evidence. It’s literally why the German death camps still exist, they know if you plow it all under people are going to have a much much easier time saying it never happened.

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        13 days ago

        Except these plantations are treated as tourist attractions where the hovels enslaved folk were forced to live in are referred to as “cottages” and stupidly fancy weddings can be hosted. They aren’t shown as stark reminders of how horrible humans can be.

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          13 days ago

          Except these plantations are treated as tourist attractions

          So are the death camps.

          where the hovels enslaved folk were forced to live in are referred to as “cottages” and stupidly fancy weddings can be hosted.

          To my knowledge the slave quarters haven’t been modified. The cottages are not former slave quarters, the roof height alone should make that fairly evident.

          They aren’t shown as stark reminders of how horrible humans can be.

          This one was, the state should have taken it over after buyout and made a museum.

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              13 days ago

              And before that it was a museum, just not a particularly successful one.

              It is or no one would care it’s burnt down.

                • Madison420@lemmy.world
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                  13 days ago

                  I don’t know anyone who’s actually said that, I’m sure racists are crying but I only hear that said offhandedly here like it somehow defeats the point that history needs monuments not because they make us comfortable but often times specifically because they make us uncomfortable.

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      12 days ago

      It does suck that neat architecture is associated with something so terrible. Maybe we can compromise by making a kindling stacking layout that looks like it?

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    14 days ago

    If you have a problem with the majestic burning down of slave plantations, then you have a problem with me. And I suggest you let that marinate.