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benlehman at 03:09am on 20/06/2009
benlehman at 03:09am on 20/06/2009This is just a stray thought from months ago.
There was a student project at the UW where they had lists of all the people who were lynched in Washington State, their names, their race, their age. They read them out loud at one point, I think, but they also had them in big binders on the quad.
I just remember that half of the Chinese men were listed as "name unknown." How fucked up is that? To kill someone in a mock trial and execution and not even know his name. It gave me chills. Still does, actually.
There was a student project at the UW where they had lists of all the people who were lynched in Washington State, their names, their race, their age. They read them out loud at one point, I think, but they also had them in big binders on the quad.
I just remember that half of the Chinese men were listed as "name unknown." How fucked up is that? To kill someone in a mock trial and execution and not even know his name. It gave me chills. Still does, actually.
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They didn't last as long as in the south, but they sure happened. Like with slavery, the south takes the blame for the whole country's problems.
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--Ben
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I think though, that's kind of the key point. Senseless murder isn't murder if the person isn't human and names only matter for humans.
What often passes for civilization is just very elaborate rationalizations justifying the same old savage acts.
(I think it was you who was telling me about the lethal injection, right?)
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Morphine, would be both more humane and actually cheaper.
Again, it's not that savagery is being done, it's that it needs to be appropriately decorated in the guise of civilization to make it palatable.
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yrs--
--Ben