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

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Is a wedding at a 'plantation' bad form? or romantic? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why are you imposing purity tests? Black people were not systematically raped, beaten, and murdered at universities. That did, however, happen at plantations.

Further why are you so invested in defending plantations? It’s creepy AF.[/quote]

"Purity tests" don't mean what you think they mean. I am not 'defending plantations'.  I am calling out your ignorance and hypocrisy in treating universities differently than you treat plantations.

Just because you choose to be ignorant about how universities participated in, perpetuated and profited from slavery for over 200 years doesn't mean they get a pass.  You willfully ignore what happened at non-plantation institutions because it's convenient and easy for you to do so.  It doesn't fit your misguided and outdated ideas about the institution of slavery and how it permeated every level of society in every colony/state.  Universities owned slaves, their faculty owned slaves, their directors owned slaves and rich, white slave-owning students brought their slaves with them to the universities.  In addition to being slave owners, many directors, donors and student families were directly involved in the slave trade.  They owned and captained the ships transporting enslaved Africans in the most barbaric conditions imaginable.  They underwrote the insurance policies slave owners held on their 'property'.  They provided loans to finance the slave trade.  They bought and sold slaves.  They certainly raped, beat and murdered slaves.

Why in the world would you think slavery was 'practiced' any differently at a university than it was on a plantation?  Why do you not evaluate these universities in the same way you have plantations?

https://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy[/quote]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz. You're bizarrely defending plantations in order to "own the libs." Your form of stupid hurts so bad that your dead relatives can feel it. Congrats, Lord of House Edgelord.

You're pointing out no hypocrisy. We are adult enough to recognize that there are shades of grey when it comes to universities vs. plantations and there involvement in the slave trade. In fact, not an insignificant number of elite Southern families today have wealth due to their ancestors' investments in slavery.

But sure, go party at a plantation and post it to IG. None of us are jealous of your moral relativism. And none of us feel bad for attending universities, some of which were tainted by funding from the slave trade. American universities have done more for our national security, economic wealth, and pushing the expansion of civil rights than plantations ever did. Your black-white form of thinking is boring, trite, and unpersuasive. Maybe you should have spent more time in a university?
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics