Is this candelabra racist?

[OddBeMe]

Was just antique shopping and wondered…

Yes

No

[Juxtapose]

You do realize that people of all colors were hired to hold things for opulently wealthy people? The fact that this would not cross your mind if a white person was holding the light proves that you are seeing things through a biased lens.

White people have been enslaved quite a bit throughout history.

[Drewtate]

Yes but are we going to pretend thd past didn't exist? Are we going to tear down Monuments to slave owners like George Washington too? We've bigger problems in the here and now of 2023.

[msc545]

Let's put it in a museum dedicated to making people remember racism and genocide.

[Drewtate]

@msc545 it's called the smithisonian and there are Monuments all over the country to those who committed genocide like Lincoln

[msc545]

Oh right, Lincoln. I realize he trashed your fantasy by freeing slaves. Hell, if not for that, you could have your own slaves.

[Drewtate]

@msc545 no but he did send troops to burn us citizens out of their homes and to starve millions of others.

[OddBeMe]

The Confederates did more damage to the South than Sherman.

[msc545]

They were also traitors and criminals. Do you want to keep monuments to such people?

[OddBeMe]

@msc545 I don’t know why they were kept for so long. We have congress people calling Lee a founding father…. lol

[Drewtate]

George Washington and the founding fathers were traitors. The union army burned to South to the ground.

[OddBeMe]

Sherman’s march was the only scorched earth tactic and was more fear of god than damaging.

Wanna talk war crimes? Let’s discuss confederate POW camps Johnny Reb.
en.wikipedia.org/.../American_Civil_War_prison_camps

[Drewtate]

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

[OddBeMe]

Yes and Sherman did that. Like Hiroshima, it’s debated and argued. I think it ended a stalemate of a war long before it would have. Sherman caused so many of Lee’s army to go home.

Hell the whole war was West Point confederate generals playing real life war as Union soldiers were basically trying to keep a country together.

[Drewtate]

So statues to those that committed war crimes and genocide OK?

[purplepoppy]

It's inclusive. I'd be more worried about the "do not touch" sign. What are they hiding?

[OddBeMe]

I think that’s the mirror thing behind it. But $7k?

[purplepoppy]

Given the style it looks pre-electricity. I wonder if it's fake

[OddBeMe]

Most shit in antique malls are well…shit. Lol

[Sevenpointfive]

it's just a monkey holding a banandelabra. that's a thing isn't it?

[Anonymous]

Yes don’t touch her

[Opinion Owner]

They got to be out of their mind that price tag