A Republican got offended I called the founding U.S. citizens "colonizers,"—rebuking me that “the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom.”
I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.🤔
Also, I'm sure the enslaved, Native Americans, women, and anyone not a WASP wealthy land owner would likely disagree with that whole "beacon of freedom" part.
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“Apparently "colonies" is respectful…”
Calls to mind this, on “Respect”—
‘Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”…’
@QasimRashid you would typically refer to the residents of a colony as colonists; colonizers isn't necessarily interchangeable (like, bee colonizers, leper colonizers, Mars colonizers, cell colonizers etc). Sort of interesting linguistically when you'd sub one for the other.
The "beacons of freedom" were built on a foundation of genocide, slavery and the exploitation of labor.
Rich men who didn't want to pay their taxes were the leaders of the American revolution. Many of them were slave owners.
@QasimRashid I still find it ironic that i spent my teen years in NH, the State with the motto 'Live Free Or Die'.
I knew i was trans, i knew i wasn't straight. I didn't come out until i moved at age 19 to the Pacific Northwest / Seattle because reality is, the only part of that slogan in NH that applied to me was the 'Or Die' part if i came out from how i felt living there.
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@QasimRashid Massachusetts, "beacon of freedom" was the first colony to legalize slavery. (as in, wrote down how it should work and enforced it)
Increase Mather (an early president of Harvard University, and father of Cotton Mather, who was involved in some of the Salem Witch Trials) was a slave owner.
It's slavery, colonization, religious conversion and force from the earliest days
A lot of the "Pilgrim Fathers" left England so they could carry on persecuting people they didn't like and England was a bit anti-persecution at the time. History say they left to escape persecution.
When the political landscape of England changed for a while during the Civil War a lot of people came back to England from the colonies so they could persecute people in England once more.
@QasimRashid you should see Texans heads explode when i explain how it was illegal immigrants to Texas being the reason for the Texas revolution. Then to add spice, remind them how the Alamo is a bastion of white supremacy. Heads fucking explode.
@QasimRashid bahahahahaahahaha 'beacons of freedom'! how i wish ppl understood that this continent was born and bred on wyt supremacy after the king of the vatican/catholic pope said it was ok to enslave and colonize. dyk kanada's first p.m. bragged about starving the first nations; that the first nations needed written permission to leave their land & communities, even for the day? wyt ppl like using pejorative terms, they call our communities "reserves" and call us 'savages' & 'indians'
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