Fam, the English football team literally had an ad for the World Cup saying āempires can be rebuiltā. If you glorify your racist, violent, exploitive history, youāre gonna be called out lmaoooo
Iāve already said this, but the colonisation was ages[centuries] ago so youāre not really ācalling us outā when we, the modern English, did not do it
You canāt honor your history when itās positive, and then divorce yourself from it withĀ āwell I personally didnāt do thatā when itās negative.Ā Itās a package deal.Ā We all inherit a world built on the consequences of our forbearersā actions - if you passively accept it, you are complicit in it for better or worse.Ā The UKās wealth and global influence is built on itās imperial history.Ā Other countries are still suffering the consequences of said history.
Iām not specifically picking on the UK here, this applies to everybody.Ā If your parents built a fortune on stolen money, you canāt inherit and keep that money rather than give it back and pretend you arenāt complicit because you werenāt the one who stole it.
South Africa just got their independence what? Like, 23 years ago AND how many island countries are current ācommonwealthā aka pretty much still under colonization?
the mayor of the capitol of a colony the us holds TODAY just called out president trump for letting said colony drown a year ago. we donāt call them colonies we call them territories or w/e, but the us, uk, and many others still have colonial holdings in the caribbean and other popular vacation destinations, and as those colonies continue to face the front line consequences of climate change, they are gonna get dropped from territorial status real quick bc we only want colonies we can extract resources from, not client states for whom we are financially and ethically responsible. look for the ānot colonies!ā argument to be used in favor of setting them **free** by various first world governments
And even without actual colonial government a lot of colonizers built economic systems in place to deter any endeveaour that could be made possible by the colonized (Haiti, South Africa, etc) and they are kept alive whether by direct external policies or enterprises embedded into the everyday life of the people.
Thereās no way around that. Colonialism had children, whether by mild names or different guises. Itās still alive and affecting entire populations to this day.
Inmates in three NY prisons can no longer receive donated books in the mail from family and community groups. They have to buy books from state-approved vendors with a limited selection.
Instead of inmates being able to receive donated books in the mail from family members and community groups, inmates at three New York prisons now have to purchase books selected by six, state-approved vendors. And the selection is limited. And expensive, activists say.
Novels cost $11.25 from one vendor.
A book about chess costs $29.95 from another.
And about a quarter of the titles are coloring books.
According to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the directive is in an effort to restrict contraband from entering the prison āthrough a more controlled inmate package program.ā
Gov. Andrew Cuomoās office has made the point that inmates still have access to prison libraries, but some say itās not enough. āThe problem with prison libraries is that [the prisons] control who has access to them,ā said Amy Peterson with NYC Books Through Bars. āSo people who are in solitary confinement donāt have access to prison libraries.ā
Petersonās group has been mailing books to prisoners all over the country for nearly two decades, with a focus on New York. āWe get letters from people saying they had to borrow a stamp in order to write to us. So if these people canāt even afford postage, we donāt know how theyāre going to be able to afford buying books from a vendor,ā she said.
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From the NY Daily News:
Over the past several days, inmate advocates pointed out that the vendors combined offered only five romance novels, 14 religious texts, 24 drawing or coloring books, 21 puzzle books, 11 how-to books, one dictionary, and one thesaurus.
āNo books that help people learn to overcome addictions or learn how to improve as parents. No Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, or other literature that helps people connect with what it means to be human. No texts that help provide skills essential to finding and maintaining work after release from prison. No books about health, about history, about almost anything inside or outside the prison walls,ā advocacy group Books Behind Bars complained in a letter to the governor.
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
I think finding out that Hitler was inspired by how throughly Andrew Jackson committed genocide against the Natives would shatter or at least destabilize the ethos of the Founding Fathers & America for a lot of people
also the american eugenics movement which started in the late 1800ā²s was a huge inspiration for Hitler, and was even where the idea of blonde hair blue eyed superiority came from, andĀ the idea of aĀ āgas chamberā to take care ofĀ āundesirablesā. In the early part of the third reich, the american eugenics movement saw it as the logical conclusion of their āāresearchāā and republished lots and lots of nazi propagandaĀ
Hitler praised American immigration restrictions in Mein Kampf.Ā When the nazis wrote the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime, they specifically modelled them after the Jim Crow Laws, the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law of the United States. Ā
Big chunks of the American legal system and history inspired the naziās in their organisation of the Holocaust.Ā
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