Assoc for Scottish Literature
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Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
Greengordon
@Greengordon@spore.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@GeePawHill

100% this. I would bet good money that the US will bring back(1) some form(s) of slavery. This has been the dream of these men since the start. I am wiling to be that women will lose the vote and a whole lot else, too.

"Y'all think the "slavery's not so bad" stylings are aberrant.

"Oh my sweet summer child, slavery is the entire and total wet dream of these ghouls."

#uspol#Slavery

(1) Not counting prison slavery that is legal and currently practiced
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

"It’s an especially striking counterpoint to President Biden, who credited Black women with his 2020 victory and made a point of breaking the glass ceiling for them during his presidency with the appointments of people like Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and Cook to the Federal Reserve Board."

#Trump#Republicans#Texas#Misssissippi#WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #redistricting #racism #slavery
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution to accept his demands, just like he did with universities by threatening to cut federal funding. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/world/politics/trump-smithsonian-slavery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #republicans #slavery #museums
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"Saying ‘both sides are the same,’ when one side is a lie and the other the truth, always promotes the lie and degrades the truth. Thus, attempts to create contexts in which both sides are essentially just opposite views of entirely equal value should always be understood as attempts to disguise a lie."

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery #genocide #starvation
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"or if hungry people should have food, or if thirsty people should have water, or if disabled people should have access to buildings, we have already lost.

Those things don’t go on the table. Because once they are on they are on the table, they have entered the realm of the things we consider."

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery #genocide #starvation
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

"If we are debating whether there should be a Muslim ban, or whether or not health care should be kept from the poor, or whether gay people should be banned from marriage, or black people killed by cops, or if women should be paid the same or not, or if Native Americans and descendants of slaves deserve reparation for systemic and ongoing theft,"

#Trump #lies #numbers#BothSides #trans#LGBTQ #healthcare#Muslims #racism #women #slavery
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David August
@davidaugust@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

No ok.

Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net

#USpol #labor #labour #slavery#HumanTrafficking#ConcentrationCamp

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
David August
@davidaugust@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

No ok.

Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor

h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net

#USpol #labor #labour #slavery#HumanTrafficking#ConcentrationCamp

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal TIMOTHY SNYDER JUL 04, 2025 With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States. Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines. The Nazi German concentration camp systemfollowed a capitalist version of the same logic: it drew in businesses with the prospect of inexpensive labor. We know this and have no excuse not to act.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

stole your meme and changed it because USA has always had concentration camps due to the fact #slavery is enshrined in the #USA #constitution under the guise of #prisons.

without prisons, the USA oligarchy, and their parasitic economy, would crumble. yes, even the war machine would come down crashing without the prison plantation system, prisoner slave labor, the cops framing people to fill up prisons, and their quota ennabling paramilitarization.

the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit
the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit
the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

stole your meme and changed it because USA has always had concentration camps due to the fact #slavery is enshrined in the #USA #constitution under the guise of #prisons.

without prisons, the USA oligarchy, and their parasitic economy, would crumble. yes, even the war machine would come down crashing without the prison plantation system, prisoner slave labor, the cops framing people to fill up prisons, and their quota ennabling paramilitarization.

the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit
the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit
the original meme said: PRISON WITHOUT DUE PROCESS IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP. the road to hell was paved with good intentions. it’s qwhite ridiculous of a certain social class within the hegemonic majority to think anything in the current prison system is good. it’s typical of people that have never spent a minute on why the whole concept of COLONIZATION, COLONIES, COLONISTS is violent and pure, unadulterated evil. so i changed it to: prison IS A SLAVE PLANTATION AND a concentration camp your antifascist work will the also about decolonization or it will be bullshit