# Pitting aceplace57 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 16, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-aceplace57/961183 "2022-03-16T14:14:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-aceplace57/961183/12 "2022-03-17T22:36:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > **ace** is the same one who once talked about slaves being happy in their cabins in the evening, laughing and playing with the family dog. Lest anyone think this is an exaggeration of what **ace** said, it actually is the tamest thing he said in that thread. Start here and scroll down through his next half-dozen posts. If you make it down to where he admits that maybe life was bad for the 1st generation slaves but by the 2nd and 3rd generation they were used to it, then I apologize for pointing you toward that fetid cesspool. > [@Interesting article about questions received while giving tours of Southern plantations](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-about-questions-received-while-giving-tours-of-southern-plantations/723842/67): > > It’s insulting to even compare Auschwitz and a southern plantation in the same sentence. There’s no comparison what so ever. You know that. Auschwitz was a death camp designed specifically to exterminate large groups of people. Don’t even think about comparing the systematic murder of hundreds of thousands of people to slavery. They may have been slaves, but people raised families on plantations. They had homes, married, they grew up on the plantation, played there, and grew old. There were al… As he says, maybe slavery was bad, but who really knows. “It was a highly complicated issue.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-aceplace57/961183)._