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  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    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.

    • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      The intersection of racism and sexism has long roots in America.

      For the Japanese American concentration camps, white women married to Japanese American men were locked up in camps as well, but Japanese American wives of white men were allowed to walk free. But these things are never taught due to the (rightful) institutional fear that the majority of white women will find out where their true class interests lie.

      • Teekeeus
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        1 month ago

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        • MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          saving women from evil male savages

          The French empire used head coverings imposed upon women as part of their argument for why they were needed to civilize the levant

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            They're still doing it. France has some law against wearing a scarf on your head because covering your hair is a religious symbol and France is a very serious nation. So they cops out harassing Muslim women all the time. I think they also banned full coverage swim suits. : p