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@meeoo@jasmijn02 Zat onderzoek dat geld geven gewoon werkt, maar dan verdienen de onderzoekers niks meer. Nul wetenschappelijke integriteit hier.p, IMNSHO.
@Infoseepage@GLaDTheresCake@grb090423@workingclasshistory The facts are simple: your ancestors settled on land that wasn't theirs and imposed their European capitalist way of living and worldview on the Indigenous peoples. That's the part of being complicit in genocide, at the least by benefitting from genocide, *all settlers and their descendants* have, and also people like me here in Europe.
You defended the mass execution of Indigenous people *resisting their dispossession and genocide* by pointing to their acts of violence, while the very violent dispossession and genocide by Europeans, because of European notions of land possession and straight open land theft of the Untermenschen*, wasn't started by them. That's why your defense of that mass execution is at bottom a genocide defence.
* There are strong links of colonialism with fascism, see e.g. the works of Césaire and Fanon just to name a few.
@Infoseepage That last sentence is where you give away the colonizer worldview which is exactly how your ancestors were part and parcel of the genocide of the Indigenous peoples in so-called America.
If you by any chance are interested in learning how that sentence shows your ancestors' colonization and part in the genocide, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's book Theory of Water could be a small start.
@janneke Het is niet jouw leed. Het is het leed van Palestijnse kinderen op 1 lijn zetten met een ietsje pietsje minder leed in de verschrikkelijke bio-industrie. Zou ze eens moeten proberen met Nederlandse kinderen.
@aral just a tip: put all the hashtags at the bottom of the text, with an empty line above them. Most apps etc will put the hashtags smaller at the bottom of your post.
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This is why I remind people when they use ableist language, as this is White supremacist eugenic thinking. Imani Barbarin has a lot of good stuff on this on her social media (she's not active on Fedi). She's a disability activist and communication expert.
Also, to add to this thread: this is Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare, which is about exactly these points to. Words, lexicon, and narratives are battle grounds and the right has been very effective with this. They made a lot of liberatory words into their opposites. Unfortunately, with e.g. "woke" and "identity politics" the White left has helped them.
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@ryanroberts The reality I can see is centuries of European islamophobia being used by Western and Israeli politicians to explain away their war crimes and continuing colonisation of, in this case, the S.W.A.N.A. region. She's not delusional, she just let the "Western Democracy" mask slip.
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