• merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    when i write “imported”, i of course am writing about slavery. My comment is not about denying all the suffering slaves and their children and their children’s children had to go through or are still going through. Imported means a “soulless” object (like animals too were considered to be back then), a slave.

    My comment is about, like i wrote, racial color codification and banal use of it in phrases like "i’ve noticed that a lot of black people …

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      1 year ago

      Except when combined with your previous post it denotes, excludes, marginalizes and codifies a race of people in a way that just isn’t true for many modern black Americans.

      Black Americans are not necessarily descendents of slaves. Some black Americans that are descendents of slaves are no more African than I am(or I am as African as they are depending on how you want to say it). Many black Americans are as much European as they are African (through the 1 drop rulings and the often raped slaves)… And all of this denies the black Americans existence since slavery. The unique situation of black Americans, where national origin is irrelevant… It is purely a white privilege to say that “white” or “black” is not a race. It’s tantamount to saying that Nazis only killed white people.

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        1 year ago

        white or black is not a race. there are no races.

        Nazis killed many people from diverse backgrounds with self proclaimed or imposed identities. They were (and their neos are) despicable