Posted on 02/07/2021 10:01:21 AM PST by Borges
Yet, while this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes between the Americas, Africa and Great Britain. Why? Because it takes these murderous thieves who did terrible things — like locking women and children in a burning church — and makes them a symbol of freedom and adventure, erasing their wicked deeds from historical memory. These were men (and women) who willingly participated in murder, torture and the brutal enslavement of Africans and Indigenous peoples.
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The WP does not want the competition for cutthroat piracy to be diminished by even the least hint that anywhere else may lay claim to “romanticizing” their methods.
Actually, most pirates were on the level of the Antifa/BLM mobs that ravaged so many cities this past year. The WP does an excellent job of painting them as “heroic” figures.
The author hates pirates...the author hates black people. The author’s hatred for black people cannot stand. The author must be fired.
No one gets to have fun anymore, obviously at someone else’s expense.
There is a similar problem in Pittsburgh. Aargh.
“So let it be written, so let it be done.”
The Raiders? Aren’t they bad guys also? Shouldn’t Las Vegas, Oakland and Los Angeles be suspect? Or are they ok by those are Democratic cities.
And remember when the Tampa Bay Rays were the Devil Rays? If Tampa was so bad, it wouldn’t have altered the name to get rid of the Devil.
“These were men (and women) who willingly participated in murder yada yada”
A couple of years ago I read an article about how politically correct they were, they had gays, POC, the whole schmier. They just start with a conclusion and work backwards. There is no truth anymore.
“centuries of Muslim pirates”
...to the shores of Tripoli.
Let me guess. 99% of parties were sexist and racist. Transgender pirates were keel hauled or made to walk the plank. This is why libs hate pirates.
It sure would be sad if BLM/Antifa burned down the Washington Compost building along with the U.S. Capitol (as they have threatened).
One man’s pirate was another’s privateer.
Call ‘em privateers.
BINGO!
Tampa Bay should rename themselves the “Politicians” or the “Journalists”, but that would scare the kids too much.
I get a kick out of how the “Golden Age of Piracy” is celebrated in movies, TV shows and festivals. There is even a Talk Like a Pirate Day. Two centuries from now, will the late 20th-early 21st centuries be celebrated as the Golden Age of Street Gangs, and will there be a Talk Like a Gangbanger Day?
Go Tampa Bay And Tom Brady!
Bernie must have been in the last season. I could only take so much pirate talk and swashbuckling.
I’ve been in both Tampa and Ibor City for the Gasparilla parades. AWESOME TIMES!
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