Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/10/socialite-rose-oneal-greenho.html
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“ n 1862 after an espionage hearing, she, with her daughter “Little Rose”, was imprisoned for nearly five months in Washington, D.C. Deported to the Confederate States”
Huh - they should have hanged her.
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I am not sure why, but my patience for celebrating traitors is about f’ing gone.
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It didn’t turn out well for her [SPOILER ALERT], as she drowned when trying to out run a Union Patrol Boat while returning from a diplomatic trip to the UK.
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We’re all going to die of something. But she wouldn’t have died on that mission if she was kept in prison till the end of the war.
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Why is BoingBoing celebrating pro-slavery fanatics?
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“…we’ll describe Greenhow’s courage and resourcefulness…”
To say the very least, that is a weirdly disingenuous and distasteful way to talk about someone who was a spy for the pro-slavery side in the Civil War.
Why not “describe” the “courage and resourcefulness” of Nazi spies in the Second World War as well?
Abhorrent.
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What the fuck?
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Maybe this “BB Contributor” was thrown by the Plucky Heroine trope?
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Doubly so, since if the Confederate Army had caught, say Harriet Tubman, she would have been tortured and hanged, no doubt.
Well, she was white, so… 
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Hey, she’s dead now, so let’s harrass all of her surviving descendants.
(This is a joke, in case you thought I was serious.)
Well why not? Neither courage nor resourcefulness are moral attributes, any more than strength or speed or intelligence.
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Suggest it to the FC team as a topic for a future episode then.
Or better still, do it yourself.
“Well why not?”
Seriously boingboing?
I thought you were better than this.
This woman was working to keep Black Americans Enslaved.
ffs!!!
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Welcome aboard, comrade. It sounds like you’ll fit right in.
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Lack of interest would certainly be a factor.
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