A very depressing movie, I want to cry but can't cry, the most appropriate description should be i can't breathe.
After watching the movie, I realized that there were more than 300,000 black slaves living in the southern slave states at that time. They were trafficked to this point, and people were beaten and whipped every day. This reminds me of an ancient occupation - the tooth woman. In fact, they have men and women, but all they do is sell good-looking poor girls and call them skinny horses. And whether these girls sink into this, or escape from the sea of misery, they will inevitably face censure in the society and be scolded as prostitutes.
But were the former slave owners hateful? As an outsider, not hateful. He grew up in such an old social system, and his thinking was limited in the old framework and could not break through. In the society at that time, it was a consensus that slaves were not equal to people. The unreasonable things he did were just things that seemed normal to him. Even if a person realizes that it is wrong to do so (probably not), invisible social pressure will drive him to become such a person or turn a blind eye, and it is really difficult to get out of the mud and not get dirty.
So was the previous social system hateful? It is not hateful either, this is the inevitable path of historical development. But assuming history is presented in another way, and there was no racism in America at the time, I think it would be the same as the rest of the world, using gender, wealth gap, religion, etc. as an excuse to hurt others, and these evil deeds Rationalize, justify. Human nature. In fact, even now, such group prejudice and group abuse still exist. To put it more bluntly, all kinds of labeling behaviors are also a form of discrimination in my opinion.
All in all, on a larger scale of history, these actions are understandable, but understandability and legitimacy are not to be confused.
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