I’m glad you brought up the rape! I’m talking dolphin-levels of rape! And if you talk to the cops about it, you’re out of the community!
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farmgineer@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
There’s plenty of grey between those. Also, presumably less oppressing, rape, and inbreeding (more to some old order groups)
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It kinda depends on the individual communities. My dad’s side of the family is from nw ohio where there are quite a few Amish communities. They each seem to function almost like little independent nations with their own rules, cultures, and hierarchical structures.
The small community that is closer to my family farm is really nice. Our family has a long history with them often trading skills, resources, and labour. Whenever they need someone to operate a piece of modern equipment or to provide modern tools to a job site they would call my family. We would call them whenever we needed extra hands to build a new barn barn, or to re shingle a roof.
In my experience the larger and more strict the community was the more fucked up they were. The community next to us wasn’t very strict, lots of loop holes to make life easier. Most of them banned anything modern in the household, but would have a barn with electricity for refrigerators and other modern amenities.
The real strict communities were always filled with miserable people, it always felt kinda what I imagine visiting a 19th century cult would be like. The elders run everything with an iron fist, and children and women were basically treated worse than working animals. Forced to work at weird little businesses to sell furniture, blankets, and baked goods to tourist.
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They also treat their animals like absolute shit, like they should be taken away bad.
FollyDolly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Came here to say this. Horrible animal abuse. What they do their work horses is inhumane.
spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Up and down the East Coast of the US, they’re known for hiding some of the absolute worst puppy mills. It used to be a big thing every time one of them got raided but you knew they were probably just going to set up shop elsewhere. If you saw an ad for golden retriever puppies way out in the countryside of Pennsylvania, you just knew they weren’t going to be treated well at all and probably have horrible health problems.