Chaosmancer
Legend
Assuming that people live no more than 122.5 years at a maximum, that means that nobody who was alive then is still alive today. There is nobody left who was actually a part of it. It's very very unlikely that you'll even find someone whose parent was a part of it.
Do you really believe that people should carry a grudge over "what their great grandpa did to our great grandpa"? Isn't that just a blood feud?
You tried saying that two hundred years was not recent enough. Now we are saying no one was alive when it happened, so it doesn't matter?
You are aware that the effects of things like this can last far into the future right? I actually remember a fascinating study I heard about once, wish I could remember the name of the town, but there was a monastery in this one town, and not in any of the towns around it. And the monks of that monastery would teach reading, writing and math to the residents. That was over 150 years ago.
The town, and it's surrounding towns still exist, they still have the same climate, the same culture, they are in the same country and the same education system now. The town that had the monastery has a higher average income amongst residents of quite a signifigant margin. My brain wants to say it was a thousand dollars, but that could be wrong.
Going through the study, they could only find one reason for the disparity. The people in the first town had been exposed to a higher level of education earlier than the others. No one who was educated by that monastery is still alive, but the effect of it on the region is starkly noticeable.
So, yeah, 200 years for the effects of colonialism and the pillage of nations? Not quite enough time for those wounds to have healed and it be "a thing of the past"
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More importantly, why should we talk about oppressions that were over centuries abo when there are oppressions HAPPENING RIGHT NOW that have nothing to do with slavery. Oppression like police brutality, wrongful conviction, uneven sentencing. Worry about THOSE. Those are here, those are current. Fight that battle instead of refighting a bettle we already one 155 years ago! There are people TODAY who need your help!
You are right. I will totally stop advocating for American slaves to be freed... well, actually I won't because prisons are still terrible, but since slavery isn't the issue and the fact of the matter that you can trace things like police brutality, wrongful convinctions, uneven sentencing, lack of representation in court, guilty pleas to avoid court fees, and many many other systemic issues to race and inequality... I think I might keep saying that we should work on that core issue. Seems like we won a battle, not a war.
Actually i think it's an awful and terrible example.
What you described is a REAL LIFE experience. We ere talking about fiction. You know, as not real.
You just described violence. Real violence. And the guys that did that to you are horrible persons.
It has nothing to do with fiction and the right of fiction (and art in general) to be able to do what in real world is rightfully prohibited doing.
Are you flipping serious? Like, legitimately?
You wanted an example of why your fictional entertainment should be more sensitive. All you want is to be entertained, why should you have to put in more work to be understanding and avoid hurting people's feelings.
So, I gave an example, an example where a group of people just wanted to be entertained. Why should they have been more sensitive? They were having fun and being entertained, why should they have tried to avoid hurting my feelings?
If you can see the problem with the second, why can't you see the problem with the first? Why is it okay to treat entire other cultures of people like naughty word, but it isn't okay to do it to a single individual?
Because I'm compulsively pedantic. Obviously racial oppression of black people is still going on but that is not the same as slavery.
Minnesota is in the north. You all know that right? This did not happen out of pro-confederate sentiment, it happened out of mindless hate.
Well, good news. No one has been saying WoTC is adovcating for the return of slavery. In fact, this thread is about the mistreatment of Far East cultures. We didn't even commit the crime of Chattel Slavery against them.