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Shiftkgb t1_j5i2jbn wrote

During lynchings entire communities would gather and bring their kids. It was also common to use pieces of the body and sell them as souvenirs as well as sell postcards of the event.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25069734

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PMmeserenity t1_j5i5gcq wrote

Go back a few hundred more years, and lots of societies were regularly sacrificing children and war captives to the gods, and castrating young men to create servants. Shit was way more brutal than today's world. But it does seem like the trendlines are heading the wrong way lately.

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