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Adult equivalent of finding out Santa Claus isn’t real
There are many people who are capable of understanding injustice when it happen to them and theirs but cannot realise it when it is done far away. We are all guilty of it to some extent, but some more than others.
one of the main points of maus
A point the author would have done well to take under advisement with regards to his own zionism. Alas.
How does the therapist in maus put it, something about how suffering doesn’t make us wiser, it just makes us suffer?
how desert land almost can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.
Classic Zionist trope of “making the desert bloom” to imply that the land was barren before the settlers arrived, further dehumanizing its indigenous inhabitants.
There are some who are color-consumed and they see a kind of mystique in being colored, and anything non-colored is condemned.
I don’t even know how to interpret this.
I’m starting to understand why liberals and conservatives alike held MLK in such high regard
The color consumed line sounds like a ironic parody of MLK, as if MLK Jr was condensed into an ideology and then fed into a LLM.
Or the garbage kkkrackers say when they claim that reverse racism exists.
This is like learning that Lincoln was technically a white supremacist. What a shit way to start the day
He was very Christian, and an American, both of these factors dramatically increase the chances of dogshit international politics both back then and now
Oh come on! I was just starting to enjoy my morning!
an amerikkkan with bad ideas about foreign policy? impossible. i dont believe it
Malcolm X stays winning
Do better Martin Luther King Jr. Do better.
