“We won’t be their negroes. Providence never designed us for negroes, I know, for if it had it wou’d have given us black hides, and thick lips, and flat noses, and short woolly hair, which it han’t done, and therefore never intended us for slaves. This I know is good a sillogissim as any at colledge, I say we are as handsome as old England folks, and so should be as free” -- John Adams under a pseudonym

Also read Domenico Losurdo's Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism, section: “Racial state and eugenics: the United States and the Third Reich” [link]

Death to Amerika, death to liberalism

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally invented racism

[–] TillieNeuen@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

I wrote a paper once that delved into the history of how racism was constructed as a way to make slavery lifelong instead of a term of indenture, and there was so much wild shit I learned. Like, if there was a white woman who was an indentured servant, if she cohabitated with an enslaved African, then her term would become lifelong too, and her children would be born enslaved. There was so much more, but that was a long time ago and I've forgotten a lot.