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Everything you’ve said there is true and excepting only the last paragraph I agree with it entirely. But the murders and manslaughters we’re seeing are a conse

Everything you’ve said there is true and excepting only the last paragraph I agree with it entirely. But the murders and manslaughters we’re seeing are a consequence of the oppression - you’re making it out so that murder is the objective of the oppression (I.e. “we oppress so that we can murder”) - not the other way around: “murders are enabled because we oppress”). What you’re describing is genocide - and yes, throughout US history right through to the present hallmarks and traits of genocide are plain to see[1] - but still I just don’t feel comfortable equating historical slavery in the US to genocide - let alone describing modern-day oppression, repression, and systemic racial bias in the US - as genocide. It’s intellectually dishonest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_genocide

lowbloodsugar 6y ago
Except for the last paragraph? You really don't know what "Law and Order President", the "Silent Majority", what these dog-whistles are about? And for the rest, I think you underestimate the number of people in this country who would rather have no black people than free black people. Sure, they'd rather have slaves, but if not, they're ok with genocide. And if you think that there couldn't be enough people to hold such beliefs, let alone successfully carry them out, then you've forgotten about the last century entirely and the very recent white supremacy marches. And on that note: look at these guys! This is what white supremacy looks like. Certainly doesn't look like your Senator, your chief of police, your sheriff. No, white supremacy dresses up like a comic book villain for you all to see. There couldn't possibly be die hard racists in power! And sure, well if there are, its really that they are economic opportunists. Sure they're evil, but they don't actually want black people to die, right? I mean, they need them to work in the prisons! Again. Wake the fuck up. And stop denying their existence. The same thing happens with demonizing immigrant farm labor. Think about what it's like to negotiate for a better living when the President of the country you are in is calling you all rapists and killers. You think that the white people have forgotten how great it was to have zero cost labor, and how effective terror is? You think that just because, on paper, people are "free" that they are in a position to stand up to this? These are people, we just learned, are actually essential workers! Where are the H1Bs for these guys? No? Of course, not, because then they could get a better job and we wouldn't have slaves to pick what needs picking.

lowbloodsugar 6y ago

Except for the last paragraph? You really don't know what "Law and Order President", the "Silent Majority", what these dog-whistles are about? And for the rest, I think you underestimate the number of people in this country who would rather have no black people than free black people. Sure, they'd rather have slaves, but if not, they're ok with genocide. And if you think that there couldn't be enough people to hold such beliefs, let alone successfully carry them out, then you've forgotten about the last century entirely and the very recent white supremacy marches. And on that note: look at these guys! This is what white supremacy looks like. Certainly doesn't look like your Senator, your chief of police, your sheriff. No, white supremacy dresses up like a comic book villain for you all to see. There couldn't possibly be die hard racists in power! And sure, well if there are, its really that they are economic opportunists. Sure they're evil, but they don't actually want black people to die, right? I mean, they need them to work in the prisons! Again. Wake the fuck up. And stop denying their existence. The same thing happens with demonizing immigrant farm labor. Think about what it's like to negotiate for a better living when the President of the country you are in is calling you all rapists and killers. You think that the white people have forgotten how great it was to have zero cost labor, and how effective terror is? You think that just because, on paper, people are "free" that they are in a position to stand up to this? These are people, we just learned, are actually essential workers! Where are the H1Bs for these guys? No? Of course, not, because then they could get a better job and we wouldn't have slaves to pick what needs picking.