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Originally Posted by chielgirl
And people look for articles like this to be filled with faux-outrage.
Do you go to the St Louis zoo?
Well, I live in the STL area and have been there plenty of times, but you don't need to be from there or have gone to it to be outraged. It doesn't make it "faux" any more than your post makes your concern "faux".
(I thought this was a thread from several years ago....but since it is current...I will re-post my comment.)
A quick google search reveals Missouri has a history of lynching. "At least 227 mob lynchings took place on Missouri soil between 1803 and 1981, all of which are identified, confirmed, and documented ..."
The decorations sure made me think of lynchings even before I knew they had black faces.
It isnt political correctness or overly sensitive to take the decorations down..it is just correct and sensitive..they have the capacity to be hurtful......just as images of bound and tortured women and children would have in Witchita (BTK)....lynching is imbedded in the American psyche....it was a horrific period in the recent past.....there is no need to enliven those images.
Would I complain about it? No. But I can see why some might see it as reflective of black lynching. If you aren't a member of a discriminated group, it never dawns on you how hurtful subtle little things like this can be. I am sure such an implication never entered the mind of the creator of this display, nor zoo employees. But no matter how much you don't see it, there are people who do see it. That doesn't mean it needs to be taken down. This could be solved by painting the faces blue or gray.
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Originally Posted by elston
(I thought this was a thread from several years ago....but since it is current...I will re-post my comment.)
A quick google search reveals Missouri has a history of lynching. "At least 227 mob lynchings took place on Missouri soil between 1803 and 1981, all of which are identified, confirmed, and documented ..."
The decorations sure made me think of lynchings even before I knew they had black faces.
It isnt political correctness or overly sensitive to take the decorations down..it is just correct and sensitive..they have the capacity to be hurtful......just as images of bound and tortured women and children would have in Witchita (BTK)....lynching is imbedded in the American psyche....it was a horrific period in the recent past.....there is no need to enliven those images.
All Halloween decorations have the potential to be "hurtful". The very idea of horror/scary feeds on that fear. Think about what you are proposing. All displays of an axe murder or knifed victim (many of those too) - are those insensitive too? Yes. The display of death is the point of Halloween - including the various ways people can be killed. It's very nature is insensitive. I'm more surprised that some aren't offended that all ghosts are white.
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