There are a lot of articles about earthquakes, soft soil, and Mexico City. Their common subtext is "dumb/silly Mexicans should know better!"
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Keep in mind that colonization is fundamentally about destruction. Part of what the Spanish destroyed was Lake Texcoco itself.
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Because they didn't respect Aztec knowledge about how to control flooding, the Spanish DRAINED THE ENTIRE LAKE. Think about that hubris.
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Even though they were repeatedly warned against doing so by the Aztec, the Spanish built their own capital on what used to be Lake Texcoco.
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The story of how we got Mexico City is relatively recent history. It's the result of violent/foolish colonization, based on racist hatred.
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Look at the buildings that were destroyed in Mexico City *and* the buildings that weren't: Catholic churches damaged. Aztec pyramids intact.
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So many white writers are pointing out that Mexico City was built on soft soil. But they fail to mention that colonization made it that way.
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"Mexico City is like building on Jello!" they write. How did it get that way? Bc Europeans destroyed a lake like they destroyed a people.
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Writing about earthquakes/soft soil/Mexico City without explicitly writing about colonization is a second erasure, a legacy of colonization.
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When your subtext is that Mexicans are dumb/silly for building in Mexico City, you're reifying the violence of colonization.
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*Fellow writers, and white ones especially: please don't steal my thread to write a new article as if you knew this all along. Thank you.
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Did you know at one time the Romans colonized the barbaric people on the island of Britannia?
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How is this bit of common knowledge either relevant to this thread? You say it as if it contradicted anything expressed here.
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It means colonization has been a game of musical chairs throughout history. If Mexico hadnt been colonized it would be still be a cannibal
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Again, I fail to see how this is relevant to her plea for journalists to take historical context into account.
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It just looks like you came across a valid criticism of modern day colonialist stigma and went “colonialism is good actually did you know”.
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As if the historical existence of systematic cruelty somehow excused its modern perpetuation or meant we can't aim to do much better.
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Her threads scream "Reparations". Geologically, Central America was destined 2 be conquered. They have zero iron in ground. -ceramic weapons
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Well I mean, it's not like they aren't being exploited anymore. Your whole reply screams “I'd happily do it again if I found it convenient”.
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