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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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Please, show me someone, anyone, who says they "didn't know" about these things

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    I think some people assume that conservatives are what they are because of ignorance and not malice.

    That is what liberals have told themselves to sleep at night basically ever since FDR died.

    You know, like how Biden rationalized being friends with Strom Thurmond.

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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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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Nah, I'm just not going to take the responsibility for shit that happened before I was born. I know I know evil white privilege guy who doesn't hate everything about himself.

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