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2y ago

Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave

www.theonion.com Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave

LAKE MARY, FL—Hoping to instill an important life lesson in the impressionable teens, a Florida school reportedly began handing out lifelike dolls to students Wedneday that would simulate the experience of owning a slave. “A lot of these young people think it sounds easy to own another human being,...

Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave

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The Onion is pulling no punches lately.
- Their pitch room must be running 24/7 with all the material lately.

Took me a minute to realize it was the Onion.

Somehow, this feels like less of a joke than the real events it's based on.
- Onion used to do satire. Now it's just a prediction machine.

My heart froze for a second when I thought I saw nottheonion and I'm glad I was wrong

This hurt my soul a little bit.

Listen, I love The Onion but don’t give ‘em ideas, man…

I'm ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't work in the recent statement about teaching the slaves "skills" to benefit them.

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