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   Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:33 JST Patricia Aas

   It shouldn’t surprise me that black Americans have a much more profound and illuminating analysis.
   https://youtu.be/YWmG96rdvu4?si=92HyIoUnuiHyDoY-

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:28 JST Patricia Aas

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     I read a philosopher say two things the other day which really shook my perspective:

     1. The US south, through gerrymandering and voter suppression is in essence not a democracy, but a single party system.
     2. Jim Crow was a fascist system, within that non-democracy.

     Since then I’ve been wondering if the US has been on this edge for a long time. That maybe large parts of the population has never lived in a democracy.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:28 JST Robert Link

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     @Patricia Well, if by "a long time" you mean since the 3/5ths compromise and earlier", then, yes.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:29 JST Patricia Aas

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     There is no winning in fascism. They will come for you too. And white women: they already have. They’re not done. Their goal is to make you property.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:29 JST Patricia Aas

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     Whiteness is not a magic armor. You are a woman and in this system that will mean you will never be worth the same as a white man. Maintaining and perpetuating this system is maintaining and perpetuating your own subjugation, your own dehumanization, your own lack of full personhood.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:29 JST Patricia Aas

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     Black women are your allies, not the other way around. They are the ones fighting for your rights.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:30 JST Patricia Aas

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     I guess that’s why certain parts of society feel so threatened, because instinctively they know this. They feel the threat. They know that their children wouldn’t support this. So they must not be taught.

     AnthonyJK-Admin and Robert Link repeated this.
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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:30 JST Patricia Aas

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     Private sector prison companies’ stocks went up, because everyone knows what’s coming. They know, but they pretend not to.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:30 JST Patricia Aas

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     People voted for this. White women voted for this. For this. For the recreation of the part of the system that made it so their husbands couldn’t be convicted for raping them all the way to the early 90s. They chose that. I don’t understand.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:31 JST Patricia Aas

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     Without that perspective it doesn’t make any sense. It’s just lies we tell children.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:32 JST Patricia Aas

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     Norwegian trying to parse the US: The more I learn about US systemic racism, the more it lands how it is a system created and maintained specifically to dehumanize. And that dehumanization is necessary to create a society and a financial and political order where exploitation and violence is rationalized and condoned.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 04:17:32 JST Patricia Aas

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     How on earth can they deconstruct this system if they refuse to learn about how it was constructed and maintained? American history can only really be understood through the perspective of black Americans.