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enbycrip · 11 months

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Been digging into things on Canadian/British, United States/British and South American/Spanish history recently and the notable thing that has come up on both - in all three cases, the European settlers were the ones actively engaging in genocide of the indigenous population. It was not the active policy of the European government.

In all three cases the European government actually passed protective legislation for the rights of indigenous subjects at the request of either indigenous people themselves travelling to Europe to make these representations, or not-entirely-awful Europeans passing on what was happening to them. They weren’t *incredible* protections in any of the three cases, but they at least recognised that indigenous people were *people* with actual basic rights. Like “not being automatically murdered or enslaved”.

But then European settlers went *batshit* at this legislation. The entire idea of “No Genocide” policies provoked enormous settler backlashes in all three cases. It was even a material, if not enormous, factor in why the US declared independence.

And the European governments in question just…rolled over. Made no real attempt to enforce this protective legislation. And it *certainly* was *not* why Britain sent in troops when the US declared independence. The Founding Fathers just viewed even the fact they had been *asked* to not murder indigenous people as an outrage.

None of this is to excuse European colonial states today of our responsibility to pay reparations and lobby for protections for indigenous people (and BIPOC in general) in our ex-colonial states. We’ve benefitted so much, especially on mass resource plundering, that reparations are a responsibility we cannot shirk.

(I just finished a biography of Charles Hapsburg and how he frittered away *massive* silver imports stolen from South America on European wars. That huge resource injection was pretty vital to the beginning of European international capitalism in the 16th-17th centuries. Before that, states just kept coming up against insufficient metals for currency, especially ones with the intermediate value of silver that let a critical mass of lower-level transactions happen.)

What it is, however, is an examination of the different ways states can be responsible for genocide, eugenics, and other crimes.

It does not need to be active policy for a state to be responsible. Even passing protective legislation doesn’t prevent a state’s responsibility if they don’t take measures to enforce that legislation, and, particularly, *if they give in to loud backlash from privileged parties who see it as an infringement of their privilege for people they are oppressing to be given some basic rights.*

I am not a proponent of “history repeats itself”. Context *always* matters, and every different situation has a different context. However, history itself provides an incredibly important and *necessary* context for situations we face now. And these facts are *incredibly* relevant to *many* situations we are currently facing.

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totallynotcensorship · 2 months

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nyiiwest · 3 months

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For those of you who still do not get it, Israel has running water, electricity, stocked markets and grocery stores, universities, and basic hygiene products. PALESTINE has been denied humanitarian aid trucks for four months, Palestinians do not have running water, they do not have structures with electricity, they do not have hospitals. They are being denied medicine and basic hygiene supplies. They do not have food, they have resorted to eating animal food or the animals themselves. Many have died from infection, starvation and dehydration.

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hussyknee · 16 days

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I don't know what's going on and I'm not sure I want to find out, but I thought the "people seeking self-determination" thing was about Palestine. Iran is very much not seeking self-determination, it's a theocratic state crushing its own people to the extent that some Iranians hate Palestine just because its government is supporting it.

In this instance, the US and its allies are absolutely at fault because they allowed their rabid dog to provoke Iran into open war, which they've been trying to do for entirely too long. But whatever happens is not in fact entirely on them (for God's sake stop glossing over all the other genocidal western nation that lent their enthusiastic support thus far), it's also on Iran because they chose this. Iran is invested in Palestine and helping Hamas and Hezbollah as a proxy war against the axis of Saudi Arabia-Israel-United States (that now seems to be escalating into a direct war) which has been the case for decades, partially because of the ethnic and religious battle lines and partially because of oil and nuclear interests. The United States and Saudi and Israel being evil doesn't mean Iran isn't also evil, especially considering two of its closest allies are Assad and Erdogan, ntm Putin. If you want to deny that they're also all genociders and despots, I can only call down all the curses of their millions of victims and their families down on your head. They matter no less than Palestinians. They matter as well as Palestinians right the fuck now, because being caught between two nuclear powers at open war is fucking terrifying for the whole region, especially Iranians. This is not a victory strike, it's an escalating disaster that might lay waste to multiple Global South countries in a myriad ways.

Someone said that the US left-wing has realized that US exceptionalism and imperialism is bad, but doesn't understand that part of it is centering the US in all world politics and conflicts and seeing the US as special in any way, including as a special evil or oppressor. If you want to be anti-imperialist and decolonial please internalise that all nation states are oppressive, artificial, post-colonial evils, that the US is just one colonizer and imperialist among many, and its fascism nothing unique. Please follow the geo-politics and news of other nations, especially in the Global South. The only special thing about the US is that it has the most military and economic power and too much influence in the Security Council, but that doesn't mean every other military power and SC member is either a puppet or a brave resistance.

Decolonization and anti-imperialism is learning to situate yourself as just one among many, just another settler colony benefiting from white supremacy, just another imperialist, just another nation state headed by power hungry supremacists. Casting every opposing power as a plucky little underdog champion is just your usual noble savage racism out in force, silencing and dehumanizing the people in those countries fighting for their own rights and freedoms.

#american exceptionalism #american imperialism #western imperialism #genocide apologia #iran #world news #decolonization #imperialism #colonialism #global south #racism #fascism #tankies #knee of huss

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adorabubblesblog · 5 months

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#Sudan #important #please boost #signal boost #news #american news #pray for sudan #sudan conflict #free Sudan #sudan crisis #sudan war #sudan genocide #south sudan

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orcelito · 3 months

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Genuinely hate being an American. The amount of pro-israel propaganda is insane. The knowledge that my tax money is going towards funding genocide makes me feel fucking livid. And no matter how many people protest it, they won't fucking Listen to us.

"Free country" my ass. Why can one man just decide to bomb another country without congressional agreement? You don't fucking represent me. Stop supporting the genocide!!!!!

#speculation nation #it's been over a hundred days of this now and it's so disheartening #broken fucking system. it's horrifying.#the fact that basically every major western country is opposing south africa's case for convicting israel of genocide is just #like i wish i could say im surprised. im not. but it's still so awful.#it's very telling though. of course a bunch of countries whose foundations rely on colonization and warmongering will support #another country that is doing just that.#in what world is israel's actions a reasonable response to one attack??? theyve killed many times more people than they lost #civilians. children!!!! bombing HOSPITALS!!! isnt that supposed to be a war crime?!?!?!#whats the POINT of having a United Nations if it doesnt fucking do its JOB?!#'never again' they say but theyre liars. they're fucking liars. and im ashamed to be american.

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ourrace-sexraceandculture · 6 months

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Here you can hear former Uganda President, Idi Amin, warning nations of the evil of Israel. He tells how he cut ties with Israel because the Israelis can not be trusted.

For those who don't understand the relevancy of this post and why use a video of Idi Amin, don't let the point be missed on you. There's a couple of points being made here, (1) even evil recognizes evil. (2) Even Satan, master of evil & the lie, has made true statements, and, an evil like Amin, has likewise, made very true statements about Israel.

#Palestine #Israel

#africa #africans #uganda #palestine #palestinians #gaza #free palestine #israel #stop funding israel #israeli terrorists #lebanon #iran #south africa #by all means necessary #free gaza #palestin genocide #american funded genocide #black tumblr

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cassandragemini · 17 days

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for the last couple semesters ive had at least one moderately evil professor but so far this semester everybody has actually been really chill. anyway yesterday my computer science professor causally mentioned that hes friends with a guy that does tech support for the idf

#genuinely couldnt believe what i was hearing #crow.txt #my other Evil Professors were moderately racist south philly italians and one of them downplayed both the armenian genocide #+ native american genocide cause ‘they couldnt be proven to conclusively be genocidal intent’#which is still evil obviously. but being buddies with a direct participant in a genocidal military occupation blindsided me

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bijoumikhawal · 1 month

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"Biden is the best choice and he's actually really empathetic and reasonable but also you can't wait for a candidate that won't do genocide and war crimes because to become a presidential candidate you have to be willing to do that" see what you fundamentally don't understand is I'm not waiting for a candidate that won't do war crimes, because I know that. I cannot morally stomach this system, it's a joke to claim its democratic, and AMERICA DELENDA EST. this country is a plague on this Earth

#cipher talk #It's baffling because okay so you know how fucked up this is but you're behaving in a way that clearly indicates you want that this shambli #Disgusting empire to cling to life until after you're dead because it'd make /you/ uncomfortable and inconvenienced #To live through its destruction (the wealthier classes and more privileged experience lesser material changes in state collapse so long as #They aren't too highly ranked/involved in politics. A Sri Lankan wrote an article specifically addressing Americans about this)#It's so dehumanizing! People's blood is so cheap to you! You've just accepted its inevitable that genocide will happen!#Because of how the US operates! You can see no other future! It hardly matters to you!#You say this like the death of Palestinians of Yemenis of Syrians is someone else's dropped ice cream cone #You understand why people hate this country and you understand we deserve it but it just. Hardly matters to you #It feels like madness to watch this. It's disgusting #I keep thinking- it'd be so easy for you to justify my people being killed if violence broke out and it was in your favor #It's unlikely because. Well. America loves 'the church of the martyrs'#But you'd do it if that was favorable. You wouldn't think twice. You might feel a twinge in your heart but that's all #Because we aren't people to you!#We aren't all that important! Not important enough for you do anything more than 'well let's vote a blue in and do some protests'#What's a protest worth if you perpetuate the system and can't see a way out and don't try for a way out?#That's killing a man then putting flowers on his casket. It's /perverse/.#You get used to the idea that Africans die that West Asians die and that's just the way of the world. My g-d do you understand anything??#I watch necrosis take hold my parts of my culture and I watch every good person I know be ground to dust under a military regime #I talk to my friend who got drafted and is trans and may never come out because if they do they can get arrested as a 'prostitute'#I watch the wild hope for the future I was introduced to over radio at 9 years old wither #I watch people risk it anyway because just past the fence they can see they know there are people there #I watch my neighbor to the south crumble and weep because our hands are bloody and it's in part because we bloodied them for the west #And you just think that's how things are.#Fascist white death cult mindset

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notetaeker · 7 months

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#this is not a Muslim-jewish conflict it never was #it’s settler colonists that are 60% atheist claiming superiority and occupying and oppressing and killing #Zionist israel 🤝 apartheid South Africa 🤝 British with the Native Americans 🤝 the freaking kkk #Palestine genocide

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deepseacityunderground · 6 months

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beginning to see american "if you dont vote for the blue warmongerers then you are personally responsible for the red warmongerers getting into power"

#it is so frustrating seeing americans play morals about what party is “harm reduction” when you know sure as hell #that both of them do the same shit #both parties destroy the stability and peace of global south nations for profit. both parties invest so much in global north countries #to encourage allyship and reliance so to never break that allyship. biden is FUNDING GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW.#both parties kill kids. both parties support modern day slavery. both parties pollute our earth and blame it on india and china #and (cus i know your average white american lib doesnt care about the rest of the world)#both parties make the usa a living hell for marginalized ppl. look at how badly indigenous and lgbt rights have been eroded over these 4 yr #look at what is happening at the us/mexico border. look at student loans. look at poverty.#they sat there and did nothing as roe vs wade was destroyed in front of their eyes.#its not harm reduction when both parties are doing the same harm but one of them is just being nicer about it #it is chickens voting for their butcher

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totallynotcensorship · 2 months

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on this week's installment of "ziobots are a joke"

here we have a bot copy pasting the same comments on multiple posts 25 times in the span of 10 minutes. some of the posts aren't even about palestine

edit: by the time i finished writing this. it made 26 more replies... gotta respect the dedication)

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR ENERGY ON BOTS

this(and a lot of other copypasted zionist replies) are paid (probably porn)bots in some server farm somewhere paid for as propaganda. interacting with them is basically shouting at a wall. at most report and move on

this is 100% a bot but has selfies of the same person from years ago. so am censoring their face in case this is a hacked abandoned account and the person in the picks might not be related to it's actions

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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hussyknee · 5 months

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pogasm · 2 months

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this take was a bit too hot for twitter so i came on here to say no isreali deserves happiness. u don’t deserve to sleep feeling safe or joy or content when there is a genocide going on in your backyard in YOUR NAME. even if you were one of the ‘good israelis’ you don’t deserve joy till the occupation is over. all you deserve is the weight of your guilt crushing u till you can’t take any more and even that would barely be a fraction of the pain palestinians r facing everyday. idk y im expected to have sympathy for yall ‘but there’s good ones’ well there were good palestinians too.

#interpreting posts in bad faith is a hobby for some of yall so lemme jst say i dont hate israelis #i just hate genocidal freaks #the same standard i hold israelis to is what i do with americans #and white south africans and any other group that has done genocide or settler colonialism or apartheid

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gothmusiclatinamerica · 4 months

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Today we talk about the 2022 debut album Royal Genocide by Chitré, Panama-based eclectic post-punk duo, Try Me and See, our first time covering a Panamanian band.

#post punk #alternative rock #alt guys #post punk duo #Try Me and See #Royal Genocide #album review #2022 #Panamanian #Central American #South American #kind of both #youtuber #Try Me & See #Youtube

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