• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Any random rich white guy has the full backing of whatever rich white country he comes from. His white skin isn’t magic, it is a flag to everyone else that he’s untouchable because he has its implicit protection as a member of a white ruling class in a white ruling country.

    Think of it like the US dollar! It’s not a magic slip of paper that has value, it’s a token with the full backing of the US empire.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        I will never read!

        … most of my thinking comes from secretly listening to podcasts at work - I put bone conducting headphones into my hair, boss doesn’t know shit! 🤫

        • From Red Menace: Understanding Settler Colonialism in Israel and the United States, their three part series on Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, and Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

        • From Guerilla History: The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne and Intro to African Revolutions and Decolonization w/ Leo Zeilig

        • From RevLeft Radio: Critical Race Theory and Black Liberation w/ Zoé Samudzi, White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide, Blood in my Eye: The Black Colony, Revolutionary Strategy, and Dual Power, Unity and Struggle (pt. 5): Wage Labor and White Supremacy, and Black Feminism and Queer Theory w/ Zoe Samudzi

        • Citations Needed has some good eps on the topic too, Episodes 52, 130, and 185

        I saw those references you gave in the other comment chain - I will never read but I’ll keep an eye out for pods

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          Yeah… well I guess that really sums up everything right there doesn’t it