07-30-2023, 01:28 PM
Janit wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
"Not to mention Scott's old school paternalism, since he seems to believe that the rape of slave women was only offensive because they were the property of their husbands."
When did Tim Scott say that rape of enslaved women was only offensive because they were "property of their husbands?"
It's in the subtext of his phrasing "about mutilating humans and even raping their wives." At best it's sloppy, at worst it harks back to notions that men are the real humans and that women are just their wives.
There is admittedly a certain rhetorical rhythm to the way he phrased it, but it is telling that he didn't think to look for a better way to say it.
You are putting words and thoughts about enslaved people in the mouth of a Black man who grew up poor in Charleston, South Carolina.
I think I'd refrain from that.