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Reporter @reveal covering immigration. Dodgers fan. Misser of the 15" of hair I recently donated. Seed saver. Occasional bead worker. Amateur cancer haver.

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    1. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      Tenochtitlán was the capital of the vast Aztec empire; it was essentially an artificial-ish island in Lake Texcoco's shallow end.

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    2. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      The Aztec empire, like any empire, was not without its faults. But it was built to either benefit or cause little damage to the environment.

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    3. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      When the Spanish colonized the Aztec, the genocide wasn't only against people, but also culture -- which is synonymous with the environment.

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    4. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      Keep in mind that colonization is fundamentally about destruction. Part of what the Spanish destroyed was Lake Texcoco itself.

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    5. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      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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    6. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      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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    7. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      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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    8. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      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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    9. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      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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    10. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      "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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      Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

      Writing about earthquakes/soft soil/Mexico City without explicitly writing about colonization is a second erasure, a legacy of colonization.

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        2. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

          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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        3. Aura Bogado‏Verified account @aurabogado 21 Sep 2017

          *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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        1. Bijan C. Bayne‏ @bijancbayne 21 Sep 2017
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          .@aurabogado People weren't even hip to this re- the deforestation of Haiti

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        1. Diana Death‏ @TheeDianaDeath 21 Sep 2017
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          the French left us with beautiful baguettes to make tortas, though.

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        1. BeckyWithMiles2GoB4ISleep‏ @luvscoconut 22 Sep 2017
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          Parts of Seattle and San Francisco built on landfill and sand. Both in earthquake zones. Not built by local tribes either. Hmmm...

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        1. SuchPissed‏ @pissoffmism 22 Sep 2017
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          It's true, I was thinking the same thing though I felt bad. Buildings are the deadliest in every earthquake. Ancestors knew the land best

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        1. Galaxican‏ @Galaxicanicus 21 Sep 2017
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          Building in most of San Francisco is also like "building on jello." Half of the high-rises are built on cascajo from 1906.

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