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This is exactly how I feel whenever I hear someone has visited one of those places, and they are like "yeah but what a beautiful house it was" 😑
I mean now it's gone it's just easier to deny it ever happened because there's less physical evidence. It's literally why the German death camps still exist, they know if you plow it all under people are going to have a much much easier time saying it never happened.
So are the death camps.
To my knowledge the slave quarters haven't been modified. The cottages are not former slave quarters, the roof height alone should make that fairly evident.
This one was, the state should have taken it over after buyout and made a museum.
This was used as a wedding venue.
That’s not exactly a stark reminder ….
And before that it was a museum, just not a particularly successful one.
It is or no one would care it's burnt down.
Yes that’s why folks are upset their “HeRiTAge” burnt down
I don't know anyone who's actually said that, I'm sure racists are crying but I only hear that said offhandedly here like it somehow defeats the point that history needs monuments not because they make us comfortable but often times specifically because they make us uncomfortable.
If that's the actual goal it should not be celebrated. There were plenty of pictures of it in its prime. It should have been roped off with a plaque and QR code for its associated wikipedia page at the perimeter. Maintained, maybe, at most.
Instead it continued to generate revenue from the atrocities that made it notable, literally profiting from the horrors visited upon all those harmed in its shadow.
No one receiving those profits gives a shit how we feel about it anyway, they care that they lost a revenue stream.
Yeah, that's called a monument or a museum.... Which it was the state just refused to buy it. There are pictures of the Holocaust, people still deny it until they're made to physically see what was done.
Let's be clear the building didn't gain anything, the owners possibly but given it's hosted 7 failed hotels or resorts it honestly seems more like a money pit for the owners and I'm pretty sure we're going to come to find it was set on fire for the insurance money which would actually benefit the owners more then it's survival given the location and ability to rebuild. So if you're trying to spite owners by dunking on a burning building then I think you have naive way of looking at the world. Similarly, isn't it minority owned at the moment?
Yeah they do, pr is pr. What do you think the chances are they rebuild it more modern but still in plantation style? So what do we actually come away with? History gone, but these rich assholes now suddenly richer assholes. Dope, I'm sure that's not a detriment to society.
It does suck that neat architecture is associated with something so terrible. Maybe we can compromise by making a kindling stacking layout that looks like it?
Turn 'em into proper museums.