people genuinely don't see slavery as a tragedy. why is this so fucking common that slavery and the slave trade is a component in so many stories?
why is it that people cannot comprehend how INSIDIOUS slavery is and was? why is there always sympathy for the slavers? "everybody was buying slaves they were all pressured into it 😥". of course i know the answer why, these questions are rehtorical
I am not surprised that whatever pirate thing has slavers as charcaters in it, because thats what pirates were doing! it wasnt just drinking rum and getting scurvy, thats mostly why i generally stay away from pirate media. but to see people continuously dismiss slavery and act confused as to why black people are upset that people keep using that as a backdrop to either "show white people a lesson" (which it never does because white people do not want to accept they are complacent in it all, nor do they want to see themselves as the villains hence why they are so quick to say "slavery wasn't that bad") or be revisionist, letting white people use the excuse "its not a documentary! it can be lighthearted it dosent have to be accurate"
people dont understand that slavery did not just end and all of a sudden black people were free to do whatever they wanted, they dont understand how horrific it was. whenever i hear people talk about 12 years a slave i always see a response along the lines of "that was like a horror movie, definitely overexaggerated". that movie did not even touch the tip of the iceberg of what was going on on plantations and in those houses.
There is generational trauma from this, the last survivors (yes, survivors) of this are leaving but their children and their children will and are seeing and experiencing the repercussions of slavery. Yet, when people express how painful it is to see nonblack people using the monsters who treated our ancestors like cattle and less than human as their little protagonists that they project all sorts onto, there is an outcry, black people must get over it and shut up.
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