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The winner receives a round trip to Haiti, with an included guided tour to the killing ground where white men, women and children were beheaded after Haiti won its independence!
At the risk of "I don't know what, but I'll likely find out," would the deed have been any less heinous or deplorable had you described it as, "....to the killing ground where white men, women and children were beheaded....?"
I'm sorry, but "white man gangbanged, beaten and hung upside down in army latrine by black" or vice versa...who cares? There is no redemption to be had no matter the race of the perpetrators. Either way, a human being has been vilely mistreated. That's what matters, not their race. The victim's race may have mattered to his assailants, but as a society, our disgust needs to rise above that.
Lest some nitwit think so, I'm not calling for political correctness. I'm imploring moral objectivity in the telling and considering of the tale.
Lastly, as goes things like socio-politically motivated massacres and revolts, it's always first and foremost a uprising of the oppressed against their oppressors. In the case of "sympathetic whites" -- which in 1807 Hati, I'm not too sure just what that really meant -- being destroyed by black revolutionaries, it's (1) difficult to conceive there having been many non-white oppressors, and (2) just as ill informed zealots here jump to conclusions and act on them by penning their baseless claim, downtrodden Haitians having little training in the rules of rigorous reasoning surely had similar notions and modes of thought when they saw sympathetic whites. Familiarity breeds contempt, but more so does unfamiliarity.
"white man gangbanged, beaten and hung upside down in army latrine by black" or vice versa...who cares?"
I care.
And....closing your eyes to the provenance, the motivations, makes you far worse than simply a dunce.