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The hell these policies become "relatable". I can understand why these policies are made, but relate to them? I want to see a better world. I won't compromise a
by isoprophlex 5y ago
The hell these policies become "relatable". I can understand why these policies are made, but relate to them? I want to see a better world. I won't compromise and relate to policies causing destruction of human rights.
I'm saying this as a hyper-privileged, cuddled native of a country that acquired it's position on the world stage in part by enslaving other humans. We were homicidal, genocidal asshats, just like the Canadians with those natives, just like the Chinese with their Uyghur population.
We're a violent race. If we want to be better, we shouldn't tolerate any of our shitty behavior, and we shouldn't soften the messaging when talking about abject atrocities.
- em500 5y ago"Relatable" in the sense that you can imagine that if you grew up in Canada or the USA one or two generations ago, you could easily have been supportive such policies yourself in your own country.
- beerandt 5y ago>We're a violent race Are you aware of the context of the article? Because reducing a race to inherently possessing certain tendencies or traits, and needing to "take action!" and "do something!" about it, is sort of how we got here. If you want to base it on historic behavior, then it'd be justified, just like the people who set up these schools.
- guerrilla 5y agoThey mean the human race
- beerandt 5y agoThat's a stretch... >as a hyper-privileged, cuddled native of a country that acquired it's position on the world stage in part by enslaving other humans. >We were homicidal, genocidal asshats, just like the Canadians with those natives, just like the Chinese with their Uyghur population. >We're a violent race. And you read that as (human) race?