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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
I am not the one who said (or thanked) a post that talked about slinging someone up on a tree. That has a very specific black and white meaning, always has, and is a meaning almost nobody would deny. But the trip down the Lynch family history was entertaining.
I do not think there has been a single post in this thread that says they should be punished indiscriminately. Happy to be corrected if you can find a post like that though.
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I have this weird obsession with watching millennials react to old songs on YouTube. There was one video where the song said something like, "I'd sell my soul for you" and then the people reacting to it paused the song and went into a huge discussion about the value of a soul, and how no one should ever sell theirs for any price, etc.
They thought the guy who wrote the song was trying to literally sell his soul, simply because they didn't seem to understand what a metaphor was. Or even the concept of poetry.
You remind of them.
Also, hanging someone from a tree has absolutely nothing to do with colour. Yes, black people were hung in the United States during a certain period of time, but it was used well before that all over the world as the end result of investigations that focused on little more than "he said/she said." I'm advocating against those types of investigations. Why does it matter what colour the subjects of those investigations are, when I'm saying the investigations themselves are wrong?