I love this. Ta-Nehisi Coate's going from a liberal darling to persona non grata amongst the nastiest and most deranged liberals. The tide is truly turning, lol. Most people are gonna be ride or die for him, not for Kamala or Joe. I read him when I was a liberal, he does the job of getting you almost to the finish line on a lot of policies and ideas.
I think a lot of people see Israel as this miraculous techno-utopia that sprung out of the desert. For them, it's not about Building A Better Future - the Better Future is Now, and the dastardly Muslim are trying to mess it all up!
When Liberia was founded, the “Americo-Liberians” subjugated local Africans and placed them on the bottom of the social hierarchy even after “equality was formally mandated and the True Whigs’ dominance in politics lessened. It was one of several galvanizing factors of the Liberian Civil War.
So the fact that she made that comparison is interesting…
Also, Africa famously did have its own version of Israel, and she probably wants it back
Why do Zionists act like Isreal was "carved out of the desert" from nothing? Palestine has been inhabited by people for thousands of years. Some of the oldest continously inhabited cites are in the Levant.
I mean i get its there nonsense propaganda, but it's so ignorant of just obvious things - like you know thousand year old cities
It is part of the dehumanization of the native population. "They were all primitive and savage and now look how we've civilized the place." To propagate the myth of a land without a people, just the same as the Native American or the Native Australian populations who have been conveniently ignored so you could displace and/or kill them.
The whole project is anchored around delusional worldbuilding, the point is to erase thousands of years of history and construct a simulacra dreamt up in the fever dreams of 19th century European orientalists
Palestine was fertile olive groves and wheat fields since antiquity. Is Italy a desert as well?
Its like euro settlers in the americas calling native civilizations “a vast empty wilderness”
welp, helen's name is now on the list.
good luck at your war crimes trial, oppressor.
It’s a period of US history. Post-Civil War. I’m assuming she’s arguing against the amendments made for freed slaves during that time
Edit: looks like she spends most of the argument making the case that the poor confederates were treated so harshly post-war when in reality the Republicans should have gone a lot harder
Straight up just a racist turd being racist
"The BLLLacks are jelly of us!!" That's all these fascists have now, bald-faced racism without any pretext of optics or obfuscation
Only zionists can call a mediterranean climate area a "desert" like the known deserts of italy and greece
thing is, desertification accelerated under zionist occupation because they keep replacing native plants with shitty european ones
Of course it's a fucking cracker. A hundred years ago she'd have been getting another Emmett Till lynched; the audacity of these crackers istg.
see the comment in this very thread where the same kkkracka (literally this time) implies that Emmett Till deserved lynching...
If white people are so great how come nowhere in Europe looks like the city from the Jetsons?
Europeans claim to have superior food, but they can't even terraform their continent into a giant garden where you just pick food up off the ground or throw a rock and hit a large animal.
I will never forgive Disney for introducing Wakanda to white people
that movie is literally about the CIA 'saving' an African nation by installing their own leader
No he wanted to kill all non-blacks by sending weapon caches to London and Shanghai!
Even wypipo would ideally know better than to have "the world's friendliest CIA agent" among the supporting cast of heroes in the movie. Or so I'd like to think... though then again, "CIA killing/torturing/drugging Anglo wypipo = bad, CIA killing/torturing/drugging anyone else = good" probably is the logic
It was created by a white person for a white audience as he imagined black americans would like to be seen.
Thats why wakanda is more like black americans cosplaying as native africans and they somehow speak xhosa near the great lakes of africa lol
Am I the only person who thought the giant forcefield protecting Wakanda being activated/deactivated by a tribal drumming routine a bit iffy? To me that would be like MI6 Q labs being unlocked by a Morris dancer troop.
I'm still mad they kept the weird "We pick kings through ritual combat" angle
Which, you know, making the technologically advanced nation governmentally regressive is still really racist
Liberals have no understanding of the coupling between productive forces and social organization.
Sure but at least it was pretty niche before that, Black Panther wasn't really Spider-man or the X-men and US comic book sales had been slowly dropping over time.
Now I have to see some Zionist racist compare Liberia to Wakanda
out of the desert
Weird, I'm pretty sure the zionist entity is occupying the levant and not the british isles
