Slavery and torture theme park

[debgeisler]

I am not making this up. From Life in the Fast Lane,

Could something so deeply disturbing on so many levels and politically incorrect actually be right? A former Colorado couple is striving to open a theme park where you can play slave for a day and be tortured for 12 hours at 'Memory Village,' where guilt ridden visitors can attempt to come to terms with centuries of their forefather's brutality by taking on the role of a slave which involves kidnapping, shackles and psychological torture — the entire gamut.

[...]

Carla says she feels indebted to Haiti for beginning the end to slave trade.

The couple has invested money they had earned from street performances on slavery in the US and their retirement funds, but have not yet come up with the $700,000 in funding they anticipate will be needed to get the project off the ground.

Even so, the foundation has been recognized by the Haitian government.

Slavery is a horrific blot on the human history -- one that stretches across all of human memory. I just don't see it as theme park material.

Comments

[edgreen86.livejournal.com]

Never worked at Disneyland or Disneyworld, huh?

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between an employment paradigm and a theme...

[madfilkentist]

If people want to do S&M, they should just call it S&M.