Diseases like small-pox were weaponized by colonizers to eliminate Native Americans. They tried this on Native Hawaiians, but we used contact-tracing, lockdowns, vaccines & universal healthcare (which we invented) to prevent biological warfare from wiping out our people.
The Western capitalist (dis)education system is heavily to blame for the Wests' inability to actually think clearly and historically, plus it's 'uncomfortable' when you've been the planetary evil for centuries. 54% of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level TODAY, teachers quit in droves, w/ trillions in student debt which graduates can't pay. A stark contrast to Hawaii's universal free quality education. We had the world's highest literacy rate (98%) and a socialist system not based in mass-disinformation for capitalist profit. https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/110261014421092991
White people in the replies still in denial of their genocidal history and present, as well as pandemic science when it's inconvenient for them. Still trying to wipe us indigenous people out with biowarfare and killing/hurting themselves and lying about it. Amazing. Nasty 1492-ass plague-spreading anti-science motherfuckers.
Just as over a million people were allowed to die from covid to prioritize billionaire profit, the US capitalist mindset doesn't care about human health or life. ER fees are only myopically seen as potential bottom-line boosters.
The million covid deaths in the US were never inevitable, and some countries have replicated 1800's Hawaii's successes in containing disease today. Excess deaths, mass-disability is still happening despite the West burying this fact for corrupt politicians and corporate profit.
The US (all parties) have never been democratic with Hawaiians in fact 95% of us signed petitions against annexation The US military responded by forcing us to be come a colony. The opposite of 'democracy'. The US then used us as a pineapple slave plantation and imperialist gas station for plunder of all of Asia / Pacific. The US has destroyed multiple islands with bombs and radioactive material, and is poisoning our drinking water with jet fuel. https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/109519029155920202
A thread on my game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions. My experiences refracted through the lens of satirical cyberpunk. https://octodon.social/@silverspookgam
More on the US ban of Hawaiian language and culture, stealing of our land, imprisoning of our leaders, forced removal of our universal healthcare, housing, food security and socialist system, then erasure of the history: https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/109943726692582739
The US set fire to Hawaiian & Asian homes & businesses after invading, & forced us into the blaze at gunpoint. Like racist 'Wuhan Flu', Asians were blamed for plague & burned, but sick Whites were treated in posh hotels. My #AAPI parents struggled in slums built on these ashes.
Hawaii had the world's highest literacy rate (98%), Universal Healthcare, electric lights before the white house, mass affordable transit, industrialization, virtually no homelessness, full racial equality. Post-US coup, it all reversed. #AAPI
Since Disney is canceling a billion dollar Florida project, it should also cancel Disney Aulani, Lilo & Stitch, & stop stealing Hawaiian culture and land for profit with the US military occupation that poisons our water, and banned our language & history.