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          1011 months ago

          I see what you’re trying to do but that’s very much a false equivalence. It’s more akin to the US’ role in the creation of the Taliban (among many, many other orgs)

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              611 months ago

              Enlighten me, what similar situations are happening with Israel and Palestine that makes this comparison relevant? The politics and history around slavery in the US are completely different than this

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                  511 months ago

                  Did the South have left-wing, secular parties with popular support that wanted abolition? Did the north actively suppress these parties while funding a group of religious extremists to do their dirty work and then turn on them when the arrangement wasn’t convenient to them? Was the north violently oppressing the south for decades before the civil war? Did the north interfere in the elections that lead to the religious extremists gaining control of the south? Are the results of that election hotly contested to this day?

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      11 months ago

      The last two times the West had racists in power we got a Civil War and then a World War (the second being directly antisemitic).

      I think you’re being a bit naive if you think those were the only times in the past 150 years that racists have been in power in the west, particularly if your definition of “in power” is broad enough to cover the confederates…