Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ...
by dang on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:05AM
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It's not, and the parent reply was uncharitable, yet I can understand why someone would feel revulsion at your post. It feels a bit like a parlor game with numbers. Not technically wrong, let's say—but so incongruent with what it's talking about as to leave one feeling chilled and dehumanized. In that way it does come across as minimizing.
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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ...
by ChainOfFools on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:42AM
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but dang you can't put 'feeling chilled' and 'dehumanization' into rational numbers, and for a certain kind of person the inability to enumerate something or quantify its cost, is an automatic 'irrationality discount.' i.e. 'What can't be counted, can't count for much.'