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Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity General or meta (media.piefed.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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[–] 11 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Well yes, but once you start oppressing a people, they generally don't get much of a chance to oppress anyone else.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Actually, quite the opposite is true for colonialism. Colonizers often chose a "favourite" group of local people and gave them a tiny sliver of power on the condition, that they help oppress everyone else. I'm not judging that btw.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Right but if you follow that power dynamic up the chain the cause would still be the group that picked the " favorite".

    This doesn't resolve the "favorite" group from their role, but rather distributes blame to all involved

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Moreover, the intentional pitting of Group A against Group B in colonialism is specifically to make it so that Groups A and B never realize that they could overtake their colonizers by cooperating.

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