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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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For example, how people like GDF, they often blame the Israel Lobby, if not Israel, for the U.S support of Israel
As far as I'm concerned, to me, it's blaming the prostitute for the husband's infidelity...
never mind the shared settler-colonial history of both these damned countries, the fact that Israel can be used as a military asset, a la Taiwan, never mind that it is instead the majority-Evangelical white nation-state of Amerikkka who saves Israel, because they see each other in our selves, and so forth
They accept this brainwashing theory that
and end with this credo that:
Yeah blaming Isreal for American support of Isreal is another good example, especially because some people will end up showing their whole antisemitic ass selves. "There's a Jewish cabal making the genocidal death cult of evangelicals act out their genocidal death cult fantasies" is diverting blame from whitey to another group. They don't want to accept just how racist their friends and family are.
I hate to get all doomer, but the reason socialism hasn't happened in the Imperial Core is because the majority of white people, especially the so-called "middle class," don't want it. They will choose fascism over communism when given the choice.