The attached photo is a completely unadulterated quote from this article by Helen Andrews, which attempts to criticize Ta-Nehisi Coates for not supporting Israel. Imagine how much easier and less stressful your life would be if you could just use Marvel/Harry Potter dialectics like these dumb fuck liberals. You get to respond to a well crafted critique of an ongoing genocide with “Erm actually, excuse me but Israel is like epic Jewish wakanda and Ta-Nehisi Coates is like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Making sense now, tankie?” and not just really think you ate that shit up, but get paid to have it published too.
The rest of the article is equally dogshit and I recommend it for a hate read if you’re feeling up to it.
The fictional premise of Wakanda is an indigenous African nation that was allowed to develop free of slavery and extraction because white people couldn't find it. The fictional premise of Israel is that if white people can cosplay hard enough as fans of a millennia old historical kingdom to which they have no living connection, they can make the fiction real atop the bones and stolen land of an exterminated indigenous population. One is a story about freedom from European colonialism. The other is a story about the triumph of European colonialism.
that was written perfectly and really great to read after being subjected to the absolute drivel in this article.”The fictional premise of Israel is that if white people can cosplay hard enough as fans of a millennia old historical kingdom to which they have no living connection, they can make the fiction real atop the bones and stolen land of an exterminated indigenous population”
God it’s almost like this exact fascist project has been attempted before multiple times and always ended with the same terrible results.
Exceedingly racist. Imagine having this little shame to publish this with your real name attached to it. Troubling…
The parts where Andrews just pretty much outright states that racism against black people is not real because she didn’t personally read it in one of Coates’ books are truly outrageous and deeply unserious.
Imagine getting paid to write crap like this.
Yeah why hasn’t the colonized and exploited Africa done its own colonizing? Get with it guys bootstrap up some blah blah blah the West brings lectures.
Africa doesn't have a nation close to a scifi made up nation. Checkmate
The American Conservative pays her SO MUCH money for drivel like this.
this might be one of the most offensive things I've seen published
Helen Andrews looks the the people version of spoiled milk and I'm not surprised her racism is just as rancid
