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Graem's avatar

His “locker room talk” (oops, I mean youthful comments from college) about Palestinian’s battle-mindedness is the kind of thing you’d expect from the most racist and conservative thinkers in the early 20th century when aimed at any other group besides people from the Middle East.

It’s a tragedy that the extent of America’s reckoning with colonial racism is half-heartedly renaming Columbus Day. As for the bigotry, the violence, and the dehumanization that underpinned Columbus‘s exploits we have yet to even begin to grapple with, let alone acknowledge, their existence both past and present.

There was a great quote about the UK riots from a Muslim community leader along the lines of, “the government is willing to condemn the violence in the streets, but not the Islamophobia that is responsible for promoting the violence.” Our society can tolerate condemnation of specific, past acts of colonialism, but start explaining why those actions occurred and that’s a faucet they don’t want opened for fear they may not be able to close it again when needed.

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CTEBEN's avatar

josh shapiro is a zionazi into supporting genocide

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