I deleted a tweet about slavery not because I don't stand by it, but because I phrased it in an unclear way and people were interpreting it in a way I did not mean. To clarify:
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Slavery, historically, has often not been among racial lines.
It has been historically against the 'outgroup'. In the US, black skin was a very easy indicator of this outgroup.
Slavery was done because it was profitable, and permissable because it was the outgroup.
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I don't believe it is largely a US discussion - it has been ongoing here in Canada for decades with the Indigenous population at the forefront along with Black and POC. We are going through our own proposals of defunding/abolishing the police at the municipal levels as we speak.
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Systemic racism is like group selection in evolution: the idea seems plausible until you drill down and try to explain how it actually works at the level of the constituent elements.
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Interested in brutality of American slavery vs, say, ancient Roman slavery. There were definitely slaves in Ancient Rome, but were they treated as horribly as American slaves were? Probably, but genuinely unsure.
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No, also Europeans, Asians and AfricansUS media is criminally negligent in covering anything east of Boston or west of LA. heard a great conversation on Al Jazeera about systemic racism and monuments to genocidal colonialists. Panel of Brtish/American/Belgian. #IndependentMedia
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Well, historically it wasn't only a US thing... Different countries had/have some sort of systemic racist system (as laws/policies enabling/enforcing racism) outside the US. Sadly it's something human societies still use for several reasons.
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We need some kind of linguistic flag system for signaling when we're doing
1) epistemic update
2) correcting injustice
3) signaling allegiance
4) conveying beliefs
5) comforting friend
6) validating friend
7) ideology work
8) culture shifting
9) narrative construction
10) news
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