tfw you realize The Holocaust was an expression of Western colonization turned inward and that Hitler wasn't an extraterrestrial, just a very efficient and talented colonizer, but you were raised to think of The Holocaust as The Only Holocaust so that ...
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tfw you realize The Holocaust was an expression of Western colonization turned inward and that Hitler wasn't an extraterrestrial, just a very efficient and talented colonizer, but you were raised to think of The Holocaust as The Only Holocaust so that you could be brainwashed into continuing to benefit from other holocausts yourself
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pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚replied to malena / bikes not bombs on last edited by
It's hard to know what to do with this knowledge, because at least where I was born and raised, we did learn about other genocides: including the homegrown ones. At roughly the same time. The language around the Shoah had more to do with emphasizing their particularity to us as Jews. I don't remember anyone claiming, "This is the *only* genocide worth discussing." But maybe they did and I've just forgotten the details.
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Susan60replied to pop_quiche_purveyor 🐚 on last edited by
@xenophora @seachanger I’ve just read this thread, on the day that Australia votes in whether to acknowledge the existence of Indigenous Australians in our constitution & allow them a Voice to Parliament on matters which apply specifically to them. And the conservative federal opposition has borrowed from the Trumpian playbook to use this as an opportunity to attack the government, to distract voters with lies & deceit & to ignore the crux of the matter, the question as to whether governments should bother to listen to the First Nations people of our country. Timely.
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Karl Heinz Häsliprinzreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger The German state practiced most of the methods used in the Holocaust in their African colonies a few years earlier...
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Sally Strangereplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger I urge anyone who finds this post problematic to pick up this book:
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ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)replied to Karl Heinz Häsliprinz last edited by
@KarlHeinzHasliP @seachanger Great video about that by The Present Past:
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/thepresentpast-germanys-first-genocide/
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Ashwin Dixitreplied to ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him) last edited by
@chiraag @KarlHeinzHasliP @seachanger
King Leopold II of Belgium killed 13 million people in the Congo.
The world doesn't remember this genocide.
Winston Churchill was responsible for the Great Famine of Bengal:
37 years later a Catholic nun was awarded the Nobel peace prize for helping the "poor" people of Bengal, to whitewash this genocide. The world remembers Mother Teresa's service, but not why Bengal ever needed her in the first place.