Twitter locked me out of my account for nearly 24 hours after I tweeted about @porliniers bullshit cartoon:https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/614505372292882432 …
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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.
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In Argentina, there's a Dirty War federal inquiry, the junta was imprisoned, there's a federal holiday to commemorate the disappeared, etc.
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The entire narrative around Argentina's Dirty War is one that compels people to never forget their own history. Sounds legit, right?
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But what about Argentina's Dirtier Wars? The wars that nearly exterminated every black and/or indigenous person over centuries of conquest?
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Where's Argentina's federal inquiry about what happened to all those black people? Like, it's 2015, and no one definitively knows!
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Argentina's OBSESSED with making sure we sure we never forget that white radicals were disappeared. Forget the black and brown folks, tho.
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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
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I step away for thirty minutes and white supremacy apologist Argentina Twitter is deep in my mentions. foh
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Are white Argentines going to start a commission to investigate how many black and/or indigenous people were disappeared in the Dirtier War?
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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.
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If anyone needs proof of a country way invested in anti-blackness, just look at my white Argentina Twitter mentions. Jesus F Christmas.
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@aurabogado@Karnythia@porliniers Yeah I am all for rainbow liberation but that's an unacceptable appropriation. -
@ImYourDM I think icons are there to be constantly interpreted and brought to new light.pic.twitter.com/KCjmscbXLn
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@porliniers Some icons aren't for everybody to play with. -
@porliniers When you take an iconic image of an oppressed people being defiant to their oppressors, and RECAST it with the oppressor's face -
@porliniers ...you turn it into another instrument of oppression. -
@porliniers Even if you're trying to communicate liberation on another axis, you've reverted it to oppress on the original axis. -
@porliniers ie you are uplifting nonBlack gay men at the expense of the Black people for whom that image was originally meaningful.
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