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Again, they're not called that though, are they? Whatever I call them, they'll still be widely known as "plantation", explicitly named after the exact type of plantation that was just described above. For that reason, I'm out. I've not said to boycott shutter suppliers, I've not told anyone here they shouldn't have them.
I still find it amusing how much store people put in a name. If underpants became known as Fascist Pants, would you stop wearing them? After all, members of various Fascist parties wore underpants, I'm sure. I can't imagine they all went commando. There's a definite historical connection there.
I'm not suggesting that lighting a burning cross in your front garden every evening and repainting the house with a Confederate flag is a particularly acceptable concept. But for anyone to find fitting slatted wooden shutters a political statement seems laughably superficial.
I'm really not having a go at you personally. I genuinely find it difficult to see how fitting wooden slatted shutters can be seen as an ethically difficult or questionable decision, and I'm intrigued, if slightly bewildered, to see how anyone could. Not that I've got any. Net curtains for the win.
Enlighten me. Given that wooden slatted shutters have been used well before American plantation owners fitted them, much in the same way as other functional things like roofs, doors and windows have been fitted by all and sundry, what makes wooden slatted shutters so distinctly objectionable? As opposed to roofs, doors and windows? Something of substance, or just the name?
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to find fitting slatted wooden shutters a political statement
Where did I say that? Just like if I said I was going to look to buy more products from Black owned businesses or promote/share work from Black creators; that is not saying that people doing the opposite is a political statement. You have come to that conclusion yourself.
I've said I don't feel comfortable with the concept that a specific design aesthetic that directly references by name, slave owners houses from fairly recent history is something to aspire to. Again, it's also more the fact that they seem to be the go to for scene points than that they exist at all. Everyone else has been bending over backwards to either explicitly, sarcastically or almost angrily say I am wrong. I've heard a lot of reasons why I should either not refer to them as plantation shutters or why I should keep calling them that and get over it. I reckon everyone else should ask themselves why they care so much.
Why is everyone else so obsessed or confused about why I don't like it? I've not trolled anyone or called anyone out for their choices.
Also, I don't like the look of plantation shutters.
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I don't know man. You find it 'amusing' and so you continue to take the piss out of something someone has said is a personal choice for them. It comes across a bit low, you know?
Names matter, that much shouldn't be so difficult to 'understand'. If I really wanted those shutters, sure I'd probably get them and insist on calling them louvred shutters instead. But the fact that people call them plantation shutters does make a fucking difference to me, however amusing you may find that.
And what I find much more wtf than me or stevo_com's aversion to the name (and by association the thing) is the fact that we as a society seem to have just accepted the name as being ok - that's a pretty decent thing, right? We could have called them something else in their recent popularity trend, but no - apparently "plantation style" is just fine. To me that's just a little bit messed up. I'd say it's unlikely pants will suddenly change their name to something unacceptable but fuck it if they did through some perversion of fashion, yes I probably would deliberately seek out the sellers who didn't call them that. Hilarious as you may find that.
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Again, they're not called that though, are they? Whatever I call them, they'll still be widely known as "plantation", explicitly named after the exact type of plantation that was just described above. For that reason, I'm out. I've not said to boycott shutter suppliers, I've not told anyone here they shouldn't have them.