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[โ€“] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We even had human zoos in Brussels. With black people from the Congo in cages depicting what life was there.

We did some horrific things in our past.

[โ€“] nagaram@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

There was one account from "King Leopold's ghost" where a Congo chief was asked to either go live in a Brussels zoo and travel the world as a spectacle or his village would be wiped out.

He chose to he a zoo animal and when his tour ended, the village was wiped out.