Ummmm you can't just analyze the gas chamber as a tool of mass death and situate it within the larger historical context of European imperialism. That's so insensitive bro.
Just because the gas chamber was invented to kill animals at the height of British imperialism doesn't mean there's any connection between attitudes towards animals and the oppressed people who were later murdered with the same technology. We all know imperial powers never referred to any minority groups as "animals" or "vermin" in order to dehumanize them.
Uhm aykchually we the much superior French, Charles Leclerc to be precise, invented gas chambers a century before that, to stop an inferior species (haitian slaves) from ruling themselves.
I read that but it appears there is some dispute because it's based on like, one guy's book about Napoleon? In any case those were hulls of ships with volcanic Sulphur in them, not industrialized machines the way Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson's gas chamber was.
Well yeah it was more traditional and family-owned, rather than the soulless industrial gas chambers, I agree that those need to go. But this doesn't mean we need to ban gas chambers altogether!
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u/tequilaisglutenfree free-range tofu Apr 20 '26
Ummmm you can't just analyze the gas chamber as a tool of mass death and situate it within the larger historical context of European imperialism. That's so insensitive bro.
Just because the gas chamber was invented to kill animals at the height of British imperialism doesn't mean there's any connection between attitudes towards animals and the oppressed people who were later murdered with the same technology. We all know imperial powers never referred to any minority groups as "animals" or "vermin" in order to dehumanize them.