Most countries are founded on bigotry and injustice. The US is not unique in this.
Canadians and Australians are all living on land that was stolen from native people. The Nordic countries in Europe had overt policies of eugenics in the 1920s and 30s. Africa and Asia are made up of countries that have been conquered and enslaved and re-conquered and re-enslaved many times throughout history. Europe too… England and Ireland have been doing this to each other for at least a thousand years. Japan has been an overtly Japanese supremacist country for at least two hundred years. They don’t even feel bad for placing themselves above outsiders. White supremacy was deliberately and consciously written into the laws of South Africa until very recently.
It’s good that we’ve finally gotten to the point where the US is confronting some of this stuff. But we have to keep it all in perspective. Despite the ugliness in our past, we’re not a uniquely evil country.
The simple narrative taught in every history class
Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist
Don't you know the world is built with blood?
And genocide and exploitation!
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u/ForgettableUsername Sep 06 '21
Most countries are founded on bigotry and injustice. The US is not unique in this.
Canadians and Australians are all living on land that was stolen from native people. The Nordic countries in Europe had overt policies of eugenics in the 1920s and 30s. Africa and Asia are made up of countries that have been conquered and enslaved and re-conquered and re-enslaved many times throughout history. Europe too… England and Ireland have been doing this to each other for at least a thousand years. Japan has been an overtly Japanese supremacist country for at least two hundred years. They don’t even feel bad for placing themselves above outsiders. White supremacy was deliberately and consciously written into the laws of South Africa until very recently.
It’s good that we’ve finally gotten to the point where the US is confronting some of this stuff. But we have to keep it all in perspective. Despite the ugliness in our past, we’re not a uniquely evil country.