I haven't read the piece. Glanced through it and decided I didn't want to read earnest literary take on owning slaves.
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Replying to @nberlat
lots of people I respect have liked it...but it really didn't look like something I wanted to read.
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Replying to @nberlat
I did not take it as a "let's humanize slavers" story. I took it as a very human story where people can't figure out the right thing to do.
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Replying to @ChrisRywalt
is it that hard to figure out the right thing to do though? "Don't own slaves" seems pretty straightforward...
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Replying to @nberlat @ChrisRywalt
The author, though, never took her in as a slave. His complicity is much more of a complex issue, I think.
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He was born into the situation and didn't become aware of the nature of it until adolescence
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeganRenaeOK and
I know "Growing up into slaveowning as an institution is complicated" is a common take but well it is complicated
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Which is obscured by the fact that we're born into lives where we can fairly easily declare ourselves not complicit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MeganRenaeOK and
"Don't own slaves" sounds straightforward, "Call the FBI on your mom at the age of 15 and get your nanny deported" isn't simple at all
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