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Trump ist definitiv nicht die Ursache, sondern ein malignes Symptom.
Wie ich hier seit Jahren immer wieder betont habe, denke ich, dass die Wurzel des Übels der Art und Weise geschuldet sind, wie die #USA gegründet wurden: als #SlavenhalterNation ( #SlaverNation):
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/115306184214183222
Das politische System war von Anfang an hinsichtlich der Machtverteilung manipuliert (rigged) zugunsten der Wohlhabenden, insbesondere der reichen Landbesitzer.
Und dann verselbständigte sich das...
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:👈
This 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,.."
You know, @[email protected], that is, actually, a far stretch.
However, I seem to remember something of that kind, too. Something about how this was organized in the South...Can't recall at present.
I will not argue that the #US were built as a #SlaverNation * and that most of its institutions still suffer from the foul compromises needed to achieve a "state of the union," i.e., the #US' #Reconstruction failed, too.
/s: "We shall overcome" never lived up to its potential. /s ...
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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:
#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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...forgotten even among PhD scholars of #history, shows how effective the heirs to the #AmericaFirst movement have been in eradicating the collective memory of these terrifying events in #US history.
(I can only very much recommended the compellingly-told and well-researched #podcast mini-series, #Ultra, by #RachelMaddow to catch up on this:)
https://i.sonnet.fm/fXPSM5yTVfWTbA727
(The only shortfall of #Cooke's #podcast episode, #SlaverNation, on the other hand, is that he gives...
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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..
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴