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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

I'm reading the graphic adaptation of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's *Indigenous People's History of the United States.*

(Don't judge me. My attention span is for shit.)

The point it makes about the tools and innovations of colonial Othering and oppression, privatization of public goods, militaristic quelling of domestic opposition (directed by the Church, even), displacement+relocation being perfected by the end of the 15th Century was a mind blower.

I mean I *know* this has happened before. But seeing clearly how Europe perfected this violence on their own people FIRST then exported it to the Americas and elsewhere -- how fucking sick is that.

And this is the 'heritage' Stephen Miller invokes.

#SettlerColonialism

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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Also, may John Smith rot in hell. Fucking genocidal psychopath.

#SettlerColonialism

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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

And John Calvin can eat a dick.

#SettlerColonialism
#calvinism

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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

The language of the British imperialist, Major General Jeffrey Amherst:

"We must, on this occasion, use every strategem in our power to reduce them! To bring them to a proper subjection until there is not an Indian settlement with 1,000 miles of our country!"

Wow. Almost the same words and sentiment of Israel, centuries later, re: Palestinians.

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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

I literally did not put realize how some of US military terminology is a head nod to the origins and development of the early US military in conquering the Indigenous nations that fought their displacement and eradication.

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Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Hm. She's making a point about the use of the Scotch-Irish as foot soldiers of British Empire building --- seasoned (brutal) settler colonialists by the time they were migrating heavily to North America in the early 18C.

So, basically, the bloody violent colonized soldiers from Britain's conquered colonies (Ireland and Scotland) become the Revolution's 'special forces' against the Indians to, for some, become part of the US settler class from which 17 of our Presidents are descended. (Including Jackson, Roosevelt, Reagan, Clinton, and wtf Obama?!?)

#SettlerColonialism
#USHistory

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