Is a wedding at a 'plantation' bad form? or romantic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with it, but that’s because I’m Canadian. That’s your history, not mine. We help free slaves.

I'm Canadian too. We have our own history not to be proud of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with it, but that’s because I’m Canadian. That’s your history, not mine. We help free slaves.

+1.

Why don't Americans simply renounce their Independence and simply go back to being part of the Brit Empire?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have a problem with it, but that’s because I’m Canadian. That’s your history, not mine. We help free slaves.

+1.

Why don't Americans simply renounce their Independence and simply go back to being part of the Brit Empire?

What Brit Empire?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slaves were very expensive. Plantations weren’t trying to kill slaves.

In many places the government would reimburse owners for the value of any slave the owner killed, as long as the owner certified the slave committed a crime (a forced confession would do). It helped keep the others in line.

In Kentucky: https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2099

But if that’s not enough equivalence for you, then fine. Let’s say We exclude the 8 or so extermination camps from the conversation. How about holding weddings at one of the hundreds of non-extermination concentration camps? For example, Ravensbruck, the women’s camp in Germany, is really pretty. It’s right on a lake and there are swans. The women there were used as forced labor for the nearby Siemens plant. Sound good?

There is something so weird about people who seem sooooo invested in insisting this is just fine. What a strange thing to dig in your heels on.

Because it’s silly. Being offended by cotton at Michaels is silly. There are real problems in the world, and when people bring up this stuff it just creates more noise. Outrage culture is truly silly. You sound silly.