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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Replying to @aurabogado
Tell that to Jack May who wrote it log before your thread http://www.citymetric.com/fabric/mexico-city-drinking-itself-ground-2838 …
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Replying to @Kevin_H_Watson
This looks like a great article. My thread, however, is specifically about earthquakes. Go mansplain and whitesplain elsewhere. Bye.
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Replying to @aurabogado
It makes good points as does your thread. Just showing that one can write about this and not have heard or be biting your thread.
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Replying to @Kevin_H_Watson @aurabogado
“Just showing that one can write about this and not have heard or be biting (author’s) thread.”
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This is getting annoying. Please leave me along now. No need to respond just stop tweeting at me.
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