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> Manifest destiny is white supremacist (read: Nazi) bullshit, as is eugenics and space colonization Are we really at such a point where all thoughts on coloni
by starkparker 3y ago
> Manifest destiny is white supremacist (read: Nazi) bullshit, as is eugenics and space colonization
Are we really at such a point where all thoughts on colonization are exclusively the realm of Western imperialism? There have been plenty of massive human empires where white people weren't involved, and reducing colonization to white supremacy feels more like erasure than anything.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoI mean when the mughals show up and attempt to create indentured servitude on mars we can generalize a bit. Right now it doesn't seem necessary.
- Keysh 3y agoWell, it's not as if people originally from Asia went and colonized islands all over the Pacific over the last few thousand years or anything.
- yaqubroli 3y ago…Japan?