Post #4027677

2026-07-23 04:55 UTC

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Sometimes learning about the racist assholes who did terrible things in other countries gives me a whole new reason to want to learn about and fight the ones who did that stuff where I live

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@hakona@im.alstadheim.no 2026-07-23 05:13

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social well they're dead now, but it's good to remember they were not just about paintings and poetry. They also had get-rich-quick by any means available, The people where I'm at just now, on the far end of the globe from Africa, Argentina , and America , had the big players invest in sailing ships , the slave-trade and sugar. Shang-haiing boys, spreading syphilis and defrauding banks. It happened. They were "the pillars of society". They were rotten. @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party 2026-07-23 12:49

@AccordionBruce@mastodon.social Yes. The attitudes, ideas, and movements that created our residential schools are still around, still animating people and policy, still doing their destructive work; most often hiding behind their veneer of do-good-ism, righteous excuses, and other shitty framing. At home is definitely the best place to bring the fight. @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

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