That gadget was invented during the Armenian genocide, IIRC.
It was(an attempt at least) at being a sarcastic reference to the fact that every ye olde quainte antebellum plantation currently restored and available for events, or ancestor mentioned to have owned such a thing at some point in the past invariably seems to turn into one of the ‘good’ ones in the telling. Even if they aren’t feeling gutsy enough to go for a general purpose defense of the institution; whatever specific one they identify with is always different somehow.
It’s not a huge surprise that people dislike the “actually, great grandad was a moral monster” concept; but that doesn’t make the contortions required to pretend otherwise sound any less unimpressive.
we do tend to be heroes of our own stories, and our dead even more so. Thanks!
Second rule of demon summoning: do not call up that which you cannot put down.
First rule, of course, being “never do that,” but who’s gonna listen?
I only wish we had an “I know” right as opposed to the know-nothings we’ve got now.
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