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without cops it would be chaos (quokk.au)
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Is there no other conclusion than racism, positive or negative?
As I said and AFAIK " it looks like a genuine and objective description to me".
"in the midst of being genocided" does not define the perspective of every individual.

I'm sure there were positive, negative and neutral articles written about jews during WW2.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Very few would have been written by the german government, though.

    Again, no, I do not think that Diamond Jenness was necessarily themselves racist - I do think that what they were writing about were cultures actively being genocided by the institution they were working for, at a time period where native people were barely considered human, and the perspective they present will be necessarily colored by that.

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