Mexico City is a metaphor and living example of the legacies of always-violent colonization. It's the logical conclusion of conquest.
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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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Huitzlipotchtli the great blood nectar hummingbird does not like gentrification
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a good start is teaching the thing what it means to be accountable for your actions, "baby steps" and not being dense about it, ya know!
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Also a good start: empathy If you met her you'd know. Text steals the face and Twitter the context. Strangers become vessels of our grief.
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more like strangers become agents of our grief, unbeknownst to said strangers. this, hopefully addresses and prevents
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Everything about your thread is true and makes sense, but there's two points you missed: 1) There's no actual Aztec pyramids anymore...
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...the Spanish conquistadores built the city on top of them. There are some ruins preserved at Templo Mayor museum, but no pyramids.
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2) You're missing the racial mixture. It was brutal for it made Mexicans aspire to whiteness and despise our indegenous heritage...
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