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White people give glowing reviews to an 1830s slave cabin put up on Airbnb

Nola

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Rover said:
I guess this is no worse than using plantations for wedding venues (which is awful), but someone calling it "sharecropping" in the Airbnb comments gives the whole game away
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It is absolutely crazy lol

It would be like turning Auschwitz into a luxury resort and wedding venue and advertising the large walk in showers. Focusing 90% of the tours on how great the officers had it, then 10% about how yeah, some Jews, socialists, and gay people were maybe also given a rough go of it for a while here(which is how most plantation tours go)

Putting Goebbels home up for AirBNB and advertising to have a luxurious night and step back into history!

Then half of Germany just sort of shrugging their shoulders and a chunk of them saying "we just love preserving the architecture"
 
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Messofanego

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Royalan said:
This is the kind of thing you only do when you don't take Black History and culture seriously.

To you its a theme park. A resource. Something to be mined.
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Black Mirror had an episode about making execution of black people as a carnival in "Black Museum" which involves a white supremacist enjoying torturing the person whose digital consciousness has been kept alive. I wouldn't be surprised if white supremacists want to make that a reality.
 
Rover

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Nola said:
It is absolutely crazy lol

It would be like turning Auschwitz into a luxury resort and wedding venue and advertising the large walk in showers. Focusing 90% of the tours on how great the officers had it, then 10% about how yeah, some Jews, socialists, and gay people were maybe also given a rough go of it for a while here(which is how most plantation tours go)

Putting Goebbels home up for AirBNB and advertising to have a luxurious night and step back into history!

Then half of Germany just sort of shrugging their shoulders and a chunk of them saying "we just love preserving the architecture"
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Yeah it's about the active denialism of slavery, which is an intentional and pervasive thing across the US.

I consider the wedding venue stuff to be a form of denialism already, but here they've taken it even further. It's disgusting.
 
Desi

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Messofanego said:
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Black Mirror had an episode about making execution of black people as a carnival in "Black Museum" which involves a white supremacist enjoying torturing the person whose digital consciousness has been kept alive. I wouldn't be surprised if white supremacists want to make that a reality.
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Was everyone black. I thought the helmet dude and the monkey doll were white people? The execution was the overarching theme but the park was all about digital consciousness
 
vixolus

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That's absurd.. like.. build a new hut on the property if you must put an AirBNB private thing on a plantation. Don't gentrify an actual slave house tf.

Also, I would imagine it would be best to have left the house in its original condition like as a reminder of the past rather than destroying it and building something new in its place, right? That would be the most appropriate thing to do to not try and cover up or ignore slavery in America.
 
Violence Jack

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Desi said:
ya wasn't that at the White house with the painting people?
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Yep.

Duke Metger (Corbin Bernsen) is an obnoxious and highly racist Southern senator and a one-time member of the Ku Klux Klan who is currently running for governor. The senator is in his office filming a campaign commercial when he sees protesters outside the office. Jewish and African-American groups have teamed up to protest against Metger for being a racist, a former Klansman, and for setting up his office at an old slave plantation previously owned by his ancestor, Nathan Wilkes. One individual, Eli (Art Evans), tells the reporter that the plantation is haunted by dolls animated by the souls of Wilkes's previously tortured slaves, warning the news crews and everyone else at the scene that it is not a myth.
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J-Skee

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I still don't understand how every plantation isn't completely demolished.
 
LegendofJoe

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J-Skee said:
I still don't understand how every plantation isn't completely demolished.
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Do you really not understand? Do you honestly think well to do white people in Mississippi would ever demolish a plantation? Maybe there have been a few, but they are assuredly a small minority. We're talking about a state that literally sent its police forces to engage in combat against the US military in an effort to stop a black man from attending university in the not too distant past.
 
Hrodulf

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Weird that some people get worked up about properties that had murders or suicides happen in them, but apparently buildings for humans that were literally property and treated worse than livestock are okay.
 
Lobster Roll

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The whole experience of staying in a slave cabin is a novelty to these fools and it's absolutely disgusting.
 
mreddie

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From the white people who are actively trying to censor slavery history from school books.
 
Chiaroscuro

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Mancha said:
I'm so enraged at this fucking bullshit. How the fuck this is still on its feet and why the fuck a bunch of white assholes are renting it? How? Just bring this shit down.
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I believe it is important to preserve the history and it should keep as it was, like a museum. I have been to Dachau and that place teaches you about the horrors that have been there.

However I don't think Americans like to learn the history (at the least the parts they don't like to be remembered) and such museum / tour would fail.

Tô convert it to a fancy hotel room? No way, worst idea ever. Like how anyone can even sleep in such a place , even redecorated? The day I spent in Dachau was heavy as fuck, depressing even being a nice summer day.

Disgusting.
 
Lebron

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Reminds me of people complaining during plantation tours when they talked about the "real shit" and would leave bad reviews on Yelp saying how it made them uncomfortable

I ain't even surprised
 
killerrin

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Oct 25, 2017
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Jesus christ.

If it's the guy actually cared about showing the history of slavery like he pretends to with the guided tours, they could have just fucking turned the damn cabin into a museum/snapshot in time and just built a different building for the damn bed and breakfast. The fucker is clearly rich enough and has enough land to do it.

But if course even then. Just don't build a fucking bed and breakfast on a plantation. FFS. You fucking hateful idiot.
 
Pai Pai Master

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Fellow southerners remember when you'd go on school field trips to fucking plantations and they'd tell you all about how great it must have been living there for like 95% of it and they let you keep the butter that you churned and only showed you the slave's quarters at the end for like 5 minutes and just pointed out the few amenities they had, and your white teacher definitely looked at all the non- white kids in a very specific way when explaining slavery and how they at least had somewhere to live
 
Royalan

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I wouldn't want these historical relics and landmarks to be destroyed. To me, that's just another form of erasure that whites are engaging in.

I want historical landmarks like this to be preserved, and held as the solemn memorials they are.

My ancestors were brought here and held in captivity in huts that looked a lot like this. I come from a mixed-race family. Being mixed race in the US (or an island that formerly functioned as a slave colony) means that your history can likely be traced back to a slave woman who was "visited" in a hut that looked like this. Mothers had babies ripped from their arms in huts like this. Slaves tended to their whip scars in huts like this. Slaves prayed silently to their gods in huts like this. This history is painful, important, and real.

The level of callousness and ignorance it takes to look at something like this. This slave dwellings...and think aesthetic.

I would slap the shit out of every single one of them.
 
Psittacus

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This is the new best example of how white people continue to benefit from slavery. It's so bare if you made it up someone would say it was too obvious.
 
JoJo'sDentCo

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Stooge said:
Like converting the main house into an Airbnb is sort of one thing and staying at a plantation to me is questionable but like sure.

Who sees a fucking slave cabin and is like 'what a fun idea'
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If it was up to me it should all be burned down, or at the very least, given to black communities.
 
Isilia

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I'm afraid to see the comments.

"Wow, these guys had a mini fridge! They had it better than they said!"

-Some racist asshole
 
Carbon

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Omega barf

Not surprising in the least though.
 
Dakkon

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Too easy to be sus of anyone who wants to burn these places down.

All you accomplish that way is help hide the history, literally helping the racists out.

They should stand and be history, proper history. They need to serve as grim reminders, not whitewashed away.
 
Legend of Aims

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Any plantation not black owned will always be sus to me.
I will never attend a wedding or stay overnight in one.
 
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Messofanego

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Desi said:
Was everyone black. I thought the helmet dude and the monkey doll were white people? The execution was the overarching theme but the park was all about digital consciousness
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Sorry not everyone but dramatically that was the main villainy of the character, to torture this one black dude. Brooker described him as a white supremacist. The actor for Rolo said this, and racial tensions is the reason for the name of the museum.

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The episode is a portmanteau of three stories, the same structure as the 2014 special "White Christmas". Brooker described it as a narrative of "punishment and racism", similar to series two episode "White Bear", and with a tone resembling the 1990s American horror anthology series Tales from the Crypt. Some of the ideas used in "Black Museum" had been discussed prior to the production of series four. Brooker had conceived earlier of a ghost story involving a digital prisoner who was repeatedly electrocuted. Another unrelated idea was of people having other consciousnesses implanted in their brain, such as a person who had an ex-partner in their brain, or a person who rented out parts of their brain to dead people.[5]​
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Douglas Hodge starred in the episode as Rolo Haynes, describing his character as a white supremacist and "the most toxic person" he had played.​

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"Just after 'Black Museum', I played Nixon and I'm currently playing a Guantanamo Bay torturer, but none of them come close to Rolo Haynes' unempathetic glee. Playing him was like swallowing a small thimble of poison each morning. Every day, the whole thing felt more toxic – especially as it was essentially a black cast and Rolo was a white supremacist."​
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Black Mirror usually avoids plots this explicitly charged with social injustice, preferring to hit the audience in the emotions, in the intimacy of universally experienced everyday moments. 'Black Museum', however, is ultimately about racial tension and the structural injustice of American society. Clue's in the title.​
 
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Messofanego

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Pai Pai Master said:
Fellow southerners remember when you'd go on school field trips to fucking plantations and they'd tell you all about how great it must have been living there for like 95% of it and they let you keep the butter that you churned and only showed you the slave's quarters at the end for like 5 minutes and just pointed out the few amenities they had, and your white teacher definitely looked at all the non- white kids in a very specific way when explaining slavery and how they at least had somewhere to live
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That sounds horrible and like indoctrination of their revisionist "southern heritage" to future generations.
 
Brannon

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Did not think my hometown would ever pop up again like this. Then again, it's Greenville, Mississippi. Of COURSE this would be a thing. Go ahead a do a Google street view tour starting from downtown (near the river) and just... go. You will be surprised at how not surprised you will be.

On an off-kilter note, just a random thought... how do plantation resort-type areas not somehow spontaneously combust in a mysterious manner somehow? I mean, Sherman, for all his flaws, had something going, so, you know... Heritage Plus Heat, yeah? Eh? Eh?


:(
 
The Real Abed

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efyu_lemonardo said:
TIL plantations still exist. I'd figured, up till now, that they were demolished a long time ago.
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I live in South Carolina. Everything down here is a former plantation. The land has mostly been sold over the years to developers. But occasionally you see one of the old remaining houses in the middle of all the other buildings. You know the ones. The standard plantation house with the pillars. So they're still around. If mostly covered up.

But this is only my experience of a relatively small part of the area west of Charleston. (Summerville)
 
loneliestwizard

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Looks like the listing has been removed from the app - it autofills search with the listing when I type in the name but an error pops up when I click on it.

Hopefully it stays down for good.
 
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