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#even the civilization where the term democracy comes from was patriarchal and had fucking slavery
lwcina
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the fact that the us government can continue funding and arming a genocide despite massive public opposition really highlights how inherently non-democratic the united states is
#almost like the idea of a representative demcracy is both historically undemocratic and inherently is incapable of being so
#by historically i mean that representative democracies have always meant the creation of a category of ‘citizen’ that is above ‘non-citizen
#even the civilization where the term democracy comes from was patriarchal and had fucking slavery
#not chattel slavery but (hot take) non chattel slavery is still bad.
#also fundamentally one person can literally not represent the wishes of a large collection of people who have only geography in common.
#theyre going to want different things!!!
#now the idea of if democracy is inherently a virtue is like. another topic. but i will say that like seeing the history of like the
#popular sovreignty movement wrt to slavery really made me question it. just because a lot of people want something to happen doesnt
#actually mean it should happen. white people voted to legalize slavery
#kind of where the old ‘minority’ terminology comes in. just by numbers alone in the states that had these votes it wasnt like in the south
#where in the south because of plantations the actual population majority in some places was black.
#but in those midwestern new states even if everyone person there could have voted. white people would still be the vasy majority.
#honestly to a degree pointing out that none of the societies that have claimed to be democracies have truly been democratic is…
#i guess the primary value in it is to challenge people who take state mythologies at face level
#a very large population that i often forget exists.
#the ‘they cant do that its illegal’ types.
#anyways. if we consider that every society in documented history has had some type of violence and oppression
#and if we believe that people are NOT inherently selfish/violent
#it follows that what we need to do is something different than what we have been doing.
#not just different from what we are doing right now. but different from what we have been doing for the past centuries
#but also i can imagine that societies and ways of living that aren’t legible to the status quo or just went undocumented for other reasons
#may have been more egalitarian. and we dont know due to erasure (either intentional or non-intentional)
#both erasure and a fundamental inability of historians to comprehend it. similar to how cishet historians who cant fathom the idea of
#transness or lesbianism talk about things.
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