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"Radicalized" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Y'know what radicalized me? Watching cops skate the prosecution damned near every time they lynched a Black man, woman, or child. That's how I learned Jim Crow is still alive and well. That's how I learned this is no democracy, it's a fascist oligarchy that sacrifices its subjects-of-empire to the false gods of the Market.

This is why half the time, my posts end off with 'death to Amerika'-- because there is no way to reform a slavemaster.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why half the time, my posts end off with 'death to Amerika'

What I hear is half the time you offer more grace and patience than this guilty nation deserves

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

You're really not wrong; but I come from a people that prioritize grace and patience-- or at least, our elders claim to. Some of what I was taught erodes slower than other subjects ig