• MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk
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    8 days ago

    It’s Europe’s fault that transgender persons are assigned to rapey cellmates in us prisons? That is the dumbest fucking shit I have ever read, but I guess in a weird way you did answer my question.

    • quill7513@anarchist.nexus
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      Not present day Europe’s, but we have to understand what the outcomes and origins of settler colonialism are in order to understand how to resist it. American Exceptionalism is rooted in the notion the white Europeans are superior to Black Africans, indigenous Americans, and Asian and Pacific Islander people. There is an America today because in the 1500-1700s the European monarchies under the protocapitalist framework of mercantilism sought to own the entire world, including the inhabitants therein. America’s founding fathers were Europeans influenced by the enlightenment movement, and the country they built was reflective of the Eurosupremacism of the time, which quickly gave way to scientific racism formulated by anglosphere thinkers to justify the industrialized rape of Africa in the 1800s.

      All I’m saying is that to resist these things we have to look at the history of how they started and then resist the tendencies that brought them about

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        origins of settler colonialism

        American Exceptionalism

        white Europeans are superior

        European monarchies under the protocapitalist framework of mercantilism

        reflective of the Eurosupremacism of the time

        scientific racism formulated by anglosphere thinkers to justify the industrialized rape of Africa

        This is what it sounds like when someone from a middle class background does meth.