Seeing the discourse in Canada and Australia is awful. Absolutely no acknowledgement of settler-colonialism. They have subreddits (I know, I know) for the countries and some posts were comparing what happened in Canada and Australia to Palestine and it seemed most people could not accept that setter-colonial countries have a stained history.
There are land acknowledgements, then in the next sentence there will be without skipping a beat, condemnation of the people of Palestine. One comment I saw took issue with a statement that had “so called Australia” in it, I believe referring to the fact that these places had names before they were colonized by imperial powers.
Jesus, yeah that tracks. Not sure if you have seen it, if you mention Romani people (commonly referred to as g*psy) in any Euro-centric or adjacent subreddit you’ll see the mask drop fast.
In some threads, USians will be talking about Romani folks quite reasonably and when time passes and it’s end of work hours for Euros you’ll notice a shift in rhetoric and the mask will drop. Some of the lefter USians will be confused, like, how are these folks so blatantly prejudiced? They really think Romani people are inferior? That they are all criminals?
Seeing the discourse in Canada and Australia is awful. Absolutely no acknowledgement of settler-colonialism. They have subreddits (I know, I know) for the countries and some posts were comparing what happened in Canada and Australia to Palestine and it seemed most people could not accept that setter-colonial countries have a stained history.
There are land acknowledgements, then in the next sentence there will be without skipping a beat, condemnation of the people of Palestine. One comment I saw took issue with a statement that had “so called Australia” in it, I believe referring to the fact that these places had names before they were colonized by imperial powers.
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Jesus, yeah that tracks. Not sure if you have seen it, if you mention Romani people (commonly referred to as g*psy) in any Euro-centric or adjacent subreddit you’ll see the mask drop fast.
In some threads, USians will be talking about Romani folks quite reasonably and when time passes and it’s end of work hours for Euros you’ll notice a shift in rhetoric and the mask will drop. Some of the lefter USians will be confused, like, how are these folks so blatantly prejudiced? They really think Romani people are inferior? That they are all criminals?
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