“This is what underpins the far-right's endless whataboutery and tendency to equate slavery in different contexts across different millenia. The goal is to empty the history of the transatlantic slave trade of its unique racial element and thus remove its legacy as a determinant"
"False equivalence and an endless dishonest minimisation are characteristics of both Racial slavery denialism and Holocaust denialism."
“The system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT in history."
— @Limerick1914
Studying the impact of racism; isn't the same as racism.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
"Individuals create systems and systems create context and context create variables that require more than [personal] responsibility." #tcot
"They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."
— Charisse C. Levchak
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