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This is an awesome response from
#JorisJarvisLechene to this bad faith question. 👌
The question:
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@joris.lechene I'm curious, wouldn't that same thing apply to non white empires like the
#mongols, the
#ottomans, the
#caliphates, and the
#Japanese? Was their slavery and establishing settlements in other lands also
#colonization or would you not consider it that, why or why not? I am curious because a lot of people have told me they either don't count because their
#slavesystems were different or because it wasn't as bad because of X reason》
👌👌The answer ⤵️
Not only white people perpetrated slavery. So why do I never talk about the colonization done by the Mongols, The Ottomans, the Caliphates and the Japanese Empire?
Well, Sandra, let me ask you : Did the Mongol Empire draw the current borders of your country? Are we currently speaking in a language that was imposed to your people by the Japanese Shogunate?
Are the institutions of your country and its legal system today the direct legacy of the Caliphate?
Did The Ottoman Empire invent and impose to the rest of the word the
#economicsystem that governs the planet today? How many descendants of Genghis khan are currently sitting on the board of the World's 100 biggest companies?
How many compagnies of the Umayyad Caliphate are currently involved in the deforestation of the Amazon forests and mining cobalt in the
#Congo?
How many Ottoman
#militarybases are currently active around the world, and capable of drone strikes on foreign territory today?
To quote my friend @jupiterbaal, can you point me to the embasy of the Mongol Empire in London? I wanna go protest in front of it now. What's the adress? Send me the location, drop the postcode !
You see, people like you who think they did something with this tired whataboutism argument are so busy trying to exonerate white supremacy, that they refuse to acknowledge the obvious : The
#EuropeanColonialProject is unique in the sense that you, me and every single person of every square meter on this planet lives and breathes in it!
We all currently exist under the
#oppression of the extractive, capitalist,
#whitesuppremacist European colonial system. Therefore, that's the one we're trying to liberate ourselves from...not the Mongol Empire !!
And the sooner you recognize that fact and let go of your white defensive denial, the sooner you can liberate yourself too!