Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agoCheck out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rockedwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up190arrow-down1external-linkCheck out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rockedwww.smithsonianmag.comEgon [they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareEgon [they/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-23 months agoThat saying has struck me as silly for a long time since there was a very large and obvious group that wasn’t a fan of slavery back then - The slaves
minus-squareSpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoYep, it’s a position that requires the person saying it to deny the humanity and agency of the actual people who are most affected
That saying has struck me as silly for a long time since there was a very large and obvious group that wasn’t a fan of slavery back then - The slaves
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Yep, it’s a position that requires the person saying it to deny the humanity and agency of the actual people who are most affected