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[Gomig-21]

Interestning map from none other than the United Nations on the history of majotiy slavery countries. And how surprising that the US is rather very minimal compared to say Brazil and the caribean. But the bias vilifies the US more than any other place. Interesting.

You wonder how many people at BLM recognize this fact?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707233490624749984

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

how surprising that the US is rather very minimal compared to say Brazil and the caribean.

chart on this post of mine showing the numbers:

Should black Americans get slavery reparations?

Should black Americans get slavery reparations? 21 March 2019 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47643630 How does a country recover from centuries of slavery and racism? In the US, a growing number of voices are saying the answer is reparations. Reparations are a restitution for...

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But the bias vilifies the US more than any other place. Interesting.

Same thing about Native American deaths. The claim is "we" (the US) are responsible for 100M Native American deaths..except most of the deaths were in Central and South America in the tropical areas where the Native American populations were high due to 365 days a year of warm crop growing cycles. Not up here where the weather sucks. Plus North America wasn't even settled until over 127 years after Columbus..which is 127 years of horrible deaths (especially from smallpox) in Central/South America before anything happened up here. Just like the slavery numbers the death numbers aren't even close.

 

[Gomig-21]

Same thing about Native American deaths. The claim is "we" are responsible for 100M Native American deaths..except most of the deaths were in Central and South America in the tropical areas where the Native American populations were high due to 365 days a year of warm crop growing cycles. Not up here where the weather sucks. Plus North America wasn't even settled until over 127 years after Columbus..which is 127 years of horrible deaths (especially from smallpox) in Central/South America before anything happened up here. Just like the slavery numbers the death numbers aren't even close.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707312709782716795

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707312709782716795

He makes very valid points but the problem is if this was 120 years ago about slavery/Indians he'd be having this conversation with a British reporter and pointing at Britain as being the "leader" of the West so it was mainly responsible for everything. Now 120 years later the US has the seat and now we are the primary blame. If it was 500 years ago he'd be sitting in front of a Spanish reporter saying Spain was the primary blame.

 

[Gomig-21]

He makes very valid points but the problem is if this was 120 years ago about slavery/Indians he'd be having this conversation with a British reporter and pointing at Britain as being the "leader" of the West so it was mainly responsible for everything. Now 120 years later the US has the seat and now we are the primary blame. If it was 500 years ago he'd be sitting in front of a Spanish reporter saying Spain was the primary blame.

100%. It's always a good thing to look at all perspectives because in the end, no one is perfect. Everyone has skeletons in their closets it's just about why and how many bodies do those skeletons add up to.

History also defines content in timely contexts but not everyone pays attention to that and tend to lump everything together. Today's generation is not necessarily responsible for the previous generation and so on. That's really the fundamental aspect against so called 'reparations'.

The interesting part to me about Shahidk Bolsen's response there is the part about Harry Truman. I found that remarkable since we really don't think of what he did as pure genocide but as a wartime decision. But when it's put in the context of his lecture, it's one of the worst genocides ever in terms of instantaneously wiping out hundreds of thousands of human beings and affecting several generations to follow. It really makes you think or at least try to think outside the box and from a different perspective, just to have all the information and not be strictly influenced from one side of the coin.

Is Harry Truman on the same genocidal list as say, Mao Zedong? Or Stalin? Hitler? Pol Pot?

 

[Gomig-21]

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

100%. It's always a good thing to look at all perspectives because in the end, no one is perfect. Everyone has skeletons in their closets it's just about why and how many bodies do those skeletons add up to.

Well it's sort of like replying to a Chinese reporter and saying as the "so-called" leader of the "East" you should take responsibility for the horrors of Japanese Imperialism on various countries by your "East".

 

[Gomig-21]

Black immigrant chick speaking a lot of truth because as a migrant, her mindset is the opposite of victimization.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707780966704431314

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Black immigrant chick speaking a lot of truth because as a migrant, her mindset is the opposite of victimization.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707780966704431314