I guess @porliniers himself, or his supporters complained I was abusive; I wasn't. I was complaining about this:pic.twitter.com/HBSZD0SocS
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I guess @porliniers himself, or his supporters complained I was abusive; I wasn't. I was complaining about this:pic.twitter.com/HBSZD0SocS
I'm pissed, because you had Latinos who live in the U.S. defending @porliniers yesterday. And I could call them on it.
I saw when @myriel_c, for example, told @thewayoftheid that Argentines "do not see race in American terms." As if that's any kind of excuse.
You had all these white Latinos making excuses for @porliniers's anti-blackness. And that's what this was: anti-blackness. Let me explain.
Argentina had a Dirty War you've probably heard about. That dictatorship claimed the lives of about 20,000 people mostly white radicals.
In Argentina, there's a Dirty War federal inquiry, the junta was imprisoned, there's a federal holiday to commemorate the disappeared, etc.
The entire narrative around Argentina's Dirty War is one that compels people to never forget their own history. Sounds legit, right?
But what about Argentina's Dirtier Wars? The wars that nearly exterminated every black and/or indigenous person over centuries of conquest?
Where's Argentina's federal inquiry about what happened to all those black people? Like, it's 2015, and no one definitively knows!
Argentina's OBSESSED with making sure we sure we never forget that white radicals were disappeared. Forget the black and brown folks, tho.
There's a lot more, but this is the context in which @porliniers created this cartoon. He lives in a climate that honors whiteness, ok?
To illustrate my point, @porliniers explaining a history he doesn't understand. (It's Tommie Smith, not Williams.)pic.twitter.com/L5mFuHA4my
I step away for thirty minutes and white supremacy apologist Argentina Twitter is deep in my mentions. foh
Are white Argentines going to start a commission to investigate how many black and/or indigenous people were disappeared in the Dirtier War?
No? You're not gonna do that but you ARE gonna stay in your feelings when a Guarani chick calls you on it? Yeah, I figured.
If anyone needs proof of a country way invested in anti-blackness, just look at my white Argentina Twitter mentions. Jesus F Christmas.
@aurabogado @porliniers wow. wow. the simpsons-laced/whiteness-of-winter olympics excuses don't help either.
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