• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Why is it when someone makes a post like this it’s always a white American man that looks like soyjack and never someone who was actually colonised?

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      7 days ago
      1. because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people
      2. and i still see plenty of similar jokes from indigenous voices anyway so you’re not even right idk maybe you just follow the wrong people
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        7 days ago

        because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people

        95% of hawaiians were murdered by white people?

        idk maybe you just follow the wrong people

        You mean this community we both follow?

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          6 days ago

          95% might be high but close. Maybe 85% is more accurate?

          Cook and his men also brought syphilis and mosquitoes so fuck those dudes right in the ear.

          https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/#:~:text=By Swanson’s estimates%2C 1-in,Swanson’s estimates have some caveats.

          By Swanson’s estimates, 1-in-17 Native Hawaiians had died within two years of Cook’s arrival. By 1800, the population had declined by 48% since Cook set foot on Hawaii. By 1820, it had declined 71%; by 1840, it declined 84%.

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          7 days ago

          no, indigenous people. the ones who were “actually colonized” like you said.

          and no you said it’s “always a white American man” implying you follow spaces where similar voices reign and i’m letting you know that’s a uniquely you experience that doesn’t have to stay that way.

          talk about bad faith, must be exhausting to be like that.

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      5 days ago

      You only follow white people ? I follow some people from our literal colonies (I’m french) and I see stuff like that quite often from them

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          6 days ago

          it’s not cool to be empathetic anymore you have to be edgy and reactionary even in the face of the greatest atrocities we know. haven’t you heard?