Americans can't say they "didn't know" about colonialism, imperialism, and racism. You were told by Martin, by Malcolm, by numerous Black and Indigenous voices naming the cost in blood and prison. Propaganda worked because it offered a deal: comfort over justice, order over truth, innocence over accountability. Social media didn't reveal reality. It just destroyed plausible deniability.
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[–] 6 points 8 months ago

Ofc they know, bigotry and nationalism is something that's explicitly taught by bourgeois superstructures (media/schools/leftover protected tradition/etc). If it was a simple deal people had been offered for "comfort", there wouldn't be a need for bourgeois to drill into peasantoid minds the concept of a nation for a hundred years, or for them to create eugenics as a pseudoscience to justify racial supremacy...

This applies to every single nation in existence btw, not just US. Sweden still had state enforced eugenics until 2013

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