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as the thinkpiecebot botmaster i talk a lot about how headlines are very bad because that is my bread and butter but holy shit is this an offensive pull quote to use in addition to thosehttps://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/989901764282503168 …

we don't spend a lot of time on the fact that the US' history of nuclear weapons use is deeply intertwined with the oppression of Native Americans and other indigenous groups when we talk about history, but we should

the people of the Bikini Atoll were forced onto other islands, where they often starved, so the United States could use their home to test a nuclear weapon. they've dealt with the effects of the radiation and now deal with climate change swallowing up their homes on top of that

(the entire history of nuclear weapons development is littered with this kind of reprehensible behavior from the countries making the weapons, just look up the history of uranium mining on Diné land to get a start)

anyway that's the kind of ~cute expression~ that trivializes the struggle of a group of people against an oppressive hegemony that has all but erased their plight from history that we expect of new york times op-ed writers, i guess

it's absolutely what we expect from someone who makes several paragraphs of the article about his sad feels about the time Brian Eno refused to let an event sponsored by the Israeli government use his music