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Drastically put, but exactly, alas.
As I summed up something I had written more than 2 years ago:
👉The #UnitedStates have a built-in systemic error: they were built as a #SlaverNation:👈
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112343700311747554This error is engrained in virtually all #US institutions. One *could* even argue that the #SystemicRacism is an incurable, possibly even fatal flaw of the #AmericanExperiment..."
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Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.
However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, 👉all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation👈:
Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.
Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...
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"Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?
Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start,.."
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I did not know about this, but it pinpoints the learned statement by #MatthewCooke that the #US are a #SlaverNation where this adverse legacy permeats almost all institutions of the #US government:
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#History #US #Europe
*On #Racism*Very true.
Also, as #MatthewCooke in his #podcast series #AmericanOriginStories puts it,👉"the #US are a #SlaverNation." 👈All its institutions were built defending the landed gentry. (I learned a lot of new details of US history from it.)https://i.sonnet.fm/qLiqAW2LBYG87ay57
#Europe, on the other hand, did have a history of #slavery and #racism (e.g. against #Jews and #Muslims), but its institutions...
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*Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?*Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because 👉the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start👈, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:
#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..