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Why do you perform this “well, they have a reason to be upset” ritualistic apologia before you condemn racist murder and the rhetoric that provokes it?

• zamalek 3y ago
  Everyone has a range of reasons to have many emotions and beliefs. It doesn't mean that we roll over and adopt those emotions and beliefs. Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved. Sugarcoating it for us fragile white people does no good.
  • xepriot 3y ago
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  • merman 3y ago
    If you contort your thinking enough, 1920s Germans suffered miserably and unfairly and we could never comprehend their suffering, us being so fragile. How can we judge them for what they did later?
    • zamalek 3y ago
      At what point did I say that they are beyond judgment? Germany is still paying for reparations, after all.
  • lockhouse 3y ago
    > Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved Yes, mostly by fellow Africans... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa
    • zamalek 3y ago
      Which excuses the white man doing it?
      • lockhouse 3y ago
        I never said it did. I just wanted to point out that the popular belief that white Europeans created African slavery out of thin air and hunted them down like animals to sell is false.
• deleted 3y ago
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