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Authenticity (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's not because of racism. Racism is a byproduct of mountains of shame looking for someone to blame. The real issue is imperialism and empire and capitalism in crisis. When people are stupid and ignorant, they turn into an angry mob. They become tribal. It's only through enlightenment and education that people will ever see the forest through the trees. Capitalism will end all life on this planet. liberalism was just something to slow it down. America is not and was never a democracy. America is a colonial settler project. Whatever ism, you want to complain about, it's just surface level nonsense. There is no war but the class war. I will not replicate. I'm not that cruel and I'm just here to watch the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Pro-Semitic racism is a new one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (15 children)

She is kind of clueless, but yeah. At least maybe sparks people thinking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well I guess governments like the US do use racism to convince their supporter base that what Israel is doing is good, essentially by equating a whole nation with potential for terrorism. and this fits the narrative in many people's head when the said nation is mostly middle eastern, has brown skin and speaks arabic.

But this is just one such tool. There is religion, nationalism, fear mongering etc etc The real reason is as always, insanities revolving around wanting more and more and more power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (19 children)

Literally everything is manipulation. Nobody questions why this particular girl was allowed to speak in front of the EU. Nobody thinks about why things happen. Who are selected and who is not. What agenda is played out.

If you as a teenager wants to talk to the EU, you think you can just do that? Many questions.