@blackintheempir

During slave revolts in America, slave owners said they’re fighting sub humans

Native Americans fought back, colonizers said they’re victims fighting savages

Apartheid South Africa said they’re fighting terrorists

Israeli settlers say they’re victims fighting human animals

Same evil, same motives, same excuses, different times

Source: https://x.com/blackintheempir/status/1816843065845281114

  • Quacksalber
    7·
    4 months ago

    That’s true for basically any conflict ever.

    For Tacitus (AD 56 – c. 120)(Germania 43, 45, 46), language was a characteristic, but not defining feature of the Germanic peoples.[52] Many of the ascribed ethnic characteristics of the Germani represented them as typically “barbarian”, including the possession of stereotypical vices such as “wildness” and of virtues such as chastity.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Classical_terminology

      • Quacksalber
        6·
        4 months ago

        The selection of conflicts chosen in this tweet make it look like white supremacy is the uniting factor, when the actual uniting factor is ethnic conflict.

        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOPM
          28·
          4 months ago

          white supremacy is the uniting factor, when the actual uniting factor is ethnic conflict.

          IMO: I would disagree; it still goes back to white supremacy. We can see it in Palestine, where the zionists share the same religion with some Palestinians, but they do not share the same skin color, so they are treated as second-class citizens even in Israel.

          An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include a common nation of origin, or common sets of ancestry, traditions, language, history, society, religion, or social treatment.

          White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine of scientific racism and was a key justification for European colonialism.

          • Quacksalber
            6·
            4 months ago

            No, if white supremacy were the uniting factor, that would imply that non-white people would not demonize and mistreat their enemy. That is exactly why this tweet is misleading. Just look at what the Japanese did to the Chinese during WW1 and WW2. Declaring their enemy less than is a human, not a white trait