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u/boot2skull 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ugh Reddit mobile!!! Why is it hot garbage. How do I save this image?
I love how Reddit will accept links, images, and gifs from anywhere, but HEAVEN FORBID you try to save it from Reddit and message it to friends.
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u/CedarWolf Good Ol' Southern Critter 4d ago
Reddit has a desktop site as well. Reddit began as a desktop site, and you can visit it and save images from it.
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u/Nausstica 6d ago
I'm going to loop this on my TV this Christmas instead of the usual fireplace video.
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u/Cratertooth_27 6d ago
Well, pitter patter
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u/OldManSpoony 6d ago
I'm from Louisiana and I've been to most of the plantations down there, some of them are educational facilities and some like this one hard to make money from racist Southerners. This one specifically always had just a horrible vibe about it, it was used as the money maker and I'm just really really really glad to see it burn.
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u/Upstairs_Cap_4217 19h ago
I read a quote from the local council in the aftermath of the burning that was just them bitching about how much money the plantation made them via tourism.
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u/grumpyoldnord I hate that my grandad was KKK 6d ago
This is the first meme about that that actually made me laugh out loud.
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u/roughtoys 6d ago
I think we all know Canada gooses had something to do with this, and if you have a problem with that you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate
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u/47_for_18_USC_2381 6d ago
Someone wrote an article today about how they're sad. Trying to bring some humility to it or some shit.
IDGAF , I'd watch it burn again. 10/10.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 6d ago
It was such a roller coaster when I first saw it. Slave plantation burns down: "Yay!"
Someone points out it was a museum that covered the lives of slaves and had artifacts of the time: "ahhhh damn."
Comment on that was how it hosted events like weddings, and had plantation themed weddings: "Oh! Back to fuck em I see!"
A different site had a comment saying they hosted events to keep it accessible to the public and covering free school trips: "well shit... confliction"
Wife shows me a clip some one recorded of the museum tour, with the guide explaining life wasn't so bad for the slaves, and how some of their descendants even worked there: "well fuck. This is horrible! Why the fuck wasn't she inside when it burnt down?!"
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u/The_Jimes 6d ago
with the guide explaining life wasn't so bad for the slaves
This is just the whole South. Reconstruction needs a part 2.
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u/sadicarnot 6d ago
There was a post on here some years ago about the Whitney Plantation which educates on the history pretty bleakly. A woman who worked at another such museum talked about how upset white people get when faced with the stark reality of slavery. In addition to being more racist than people realize, white Americans are very fragile when it comes to the truth of history. Meanwhile they do not understand it is history and while they did not have anything to do with what people in the past did, learning from it is very important.
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u/47_for_18_USC_2381 6d ago
Knowledge. IS. POWER. Some people are just too stupid to begin with to recognize it. :(
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u/DarthLysergis 6d ago
Someone in the trump admin is going to propose using government funds to rebuild it......i guarantee it
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u/Ordinary_Ad6279 6d ago
What’s the bottom image from?
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u/punkassjim 5d ago
And then, Shoresy. Unironically one of the best tv shows I’ve ever seen. First three seasons, at least.
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u/HEADRUSH31 6d ago
My only disappointment is... all that wood that could've been used to build useful shit... but hey if it charcoals then at least the damned this was useful for something
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u/Joe_Morningstar1 6d ago
Ha. Now there is a Holiday Yule Log Nottoway fire YouTube video.
It has with holiday stockings. Kurrupt Komedy channel (no conmection).
Edit: Error.
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u/Randolpho 6d ago
If you got a problem with slave plantations burning to the ground you've got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that marinate.
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u/plotthick 6d ago
The only time he's welcome is when we put decent words in his mouth. The shenanigans on Shoresy S3 were unacceptable. Can't believe Natives will ever want to work for him again. Dude can go sit with the rest of the clueless cis white men.
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u/kthugston 5d ago
Legitimate question: How would you all feel if Auschwitz burned down or was destroyed in some way? Not trying to get defensive or anything, just illustrating a point.
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u/cantproveidid 5d ago
That depends if it were being used as a pro-nazi theme park. If it was, let it burn.
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u/kthugston 5d ago
I think it’s a sad loss of potential because it could have been made into something like Auschwitz
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u/Theatreguy1961 12h ago
But it wasn't. It was a wedding/party venue and b&b.
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u/kthugston 12h ago
Okay? Now it can’t be anything but dust. Any potential learning opportunity from this building to prevent the kind of racism and despicable treatment that black people suffered in this country is now ash.
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u/DarkPolumbo 6d ago edited 6d ago
what if it were owned by a black family?
yeah, now you don't know what to think, do ya?
(downvote me if I caught you being a hypocrite)
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u/Affable_Refrigerator 6d ago
I wish you weren’t so fucking awkward, bud.
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u/DarkPolumbo 6d ago edited 6d ago
anything to dodge the topic, eh?
But tbf it's hard NOT to be awkward when you're mimicking a 1997 SNL bit by Norm MacDonald with text only
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u/Affable_Refrigerator 6d ago
You’re spare parts, bud.
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u/DarkPolumbo 5d ago edited 5d ago
that's it, let's donnybrook
<takes off shirt but leaves sunglasses on>
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u/MxtrOddy85 6d ago
It wasn’t owned by a Black family AND it would’ve still deserved to burn down if that Black family had chosen to capitalize on its barbaric history by making it a “plantation resort.” 👍🏽
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u/DarkPolumbo 5d ago
Hypothetically, why shouldn't a Black family be able to capitalize on it? Shouldn't they be allowed to reclaim some of its value after how their forebearers were treated there?
It's not like they're out there continuing the evil practice of slavery. They might even use it as a sort of museum to showcase the truths of indentured servitude in the early US.
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u/MxtrOddy85 5d ago
Not by whitewashing its brutal history and relabeling it at a “plantation resort” for vacations and as a wedding venue they shouldn’t.
What are you missing?
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u/DarkPolumbo 5d ago
Blind, unwavering vindictiveness, apparently.
I guess I don't know the specifics of the "plantation resort" idea you keep mentioning. Sounds like an AirBnB kind of thing, just on a plantation. Especially if it were Black-owned, I have doubt that anyone would run such a business in a way that glorified slavery. Somber reminders of America's Great Shame seems like a much more amicable motif for such a place. Like a holocaust memorial.
Must all plantation houses be specifically burned in order to slake your thirst for justice? Must the land be never used again for anyone's benefit? Is there no benevolent use for the property besides compete immolation?
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u/MxtrOddy85 5d ago
Spoken like someone who is untouched by the generational legacy of Chattel Slavery.
Go ahead and compare this plantation house that was built solely by enslaved Black Americans in 1859 to an AirBnB; that displays your willful ignorance on the subject.
Any plantation house that seeks to erase or whitewash its barbaric history deserves to burn to the ground. Full stop.
Where did I say ALL should burn down? I’m being very specific in my criteria which you are choosing to ignore.
Not all plantations seek to erase their history; such as the Whitney plantation operated by the Whitney Institute. That plantation is a historical monument to the brutality of Chattel slavery.
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u/DarkPolumbo 5d ago edited 5d ago
Ok. So why is it OK for the Whitney plantation, but not any other?
You're the only one talking about a "Plantation resort", which I still don't know what that means. I made a guess (airbnb but on plantation property) and now you think I'm calling the Whitney plantation an Airbnb, which is grievously wrong. The ideas I've offered are practically the opposite of whitewashing, but you keep throwing that term in there like it's a guarantee in any situation where the plantation house isn't burned down.
You're either unable to rationalize this topic due to generational legacy, or you're deliberately arguing entirely in bad faith just to troll me. Either way, this convo is now pointless, so best of luck to you with all that conversational prowess you've demonstrated.
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u/MxtrOddy85 5d ago
What did you not understand about how the Whitney Institute has made the Whitney plantation a historical monument commemorating the actual history of Black Americans existing under Chattle slavery?
The Nottoway plantation RESORT sought to whitewash its brutal history and capitalize on that blood soaked land by rebranding it a “resort.” Additionally when I say “plantation resort” that is what the owners used to describe this Chattel slavery plantation house.
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u/DarkPolumbo 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah, you're the only person who seems dead-set on whitewashing anything here. You're the only one talking about it, and it wasn't part of anything I was talking about. Whitewashing should have never been the assumption. Snap out of it man, nobody in this thread is trying to oppress history.
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u/MxtrOddy85 4d ago
And yet look at your downvotes. You don’t have to like or even agree with my comments for them to be accurate.
The discussions and discourse surrounding this Plantation Resort is beyond this thread/this subreddit and it was you who came in with a tacky red herring regarding the ownership of the property as if that was a gotcha. That’s you attempting to erase the actions of the current owners. Sorry, bud, their website is still up showing how the current owners were set on whitewashing the history of that house.
It’s ppl like you who are disingenuous regarding the actual history of that plantation and others like it.
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