• Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    There are two explanations for the crisis in Haiti. On the one hand, you have:

    In 2004, the U.S. government under George W. Bush carried out the second coup (George H. W. Bush was responsible for the first in 1991), leading to the killing of close to ten thousand people by right-wing forces—the old Haitian military forces that President Aristide had disbanded, coupled with various mercenaries and killers from Haiti, including the death squad Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, similar to the Tonton Macoutes, the henchmen of Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier. They actually were not able to carry out the coup d’état, so the special forces of the United States, France, and Canada came in and overthrew and kidnapped President Aristide. But the Haitian people never accepted this coup d’état and resistance has continued to this day.

    Haiti has been under occupation by the United States, France, and Canada, but using the United Nations as a cover to make it acceptable and palatable to the rest of the world. UN forces have really been carrying out U.S. foreign policy; they have massacred people in poor neighborhoods and various communities throughout Haiti, because they have kept up the demonstrations against the rotten system of exploitation, demanding their democratic rights and that the people they elected be returned to office. So they are being massacred.

    And on the other hand, you have:

    black people bad

    Now the question is, which explanation sounds more accurate and more credible? Hmm… decisions, decisions.

  • @SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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    1210 months ago

    I need right wingers (and enlightened centrists) to get it through their heads that IQ is not an effective measurement of intelligence. I literally learned this in my university Psychology course.

    • Drive-by Lurker
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      310 months ago

      And then what?

      I don’t think their insulting of IQ pictured here is out of genuine belief in the IQ metric.

      • @SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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        I guess I’ve seen so many use IQ as a genuine solid measurement of intelligence that I’d really like that view to change. Apparently there are clubs exclusive to people within a certain IQ range…

  • @HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    1010 months ago

    If you don’t approve of white men being killed, maybe don’t put the flag of the single biggest murderer of white men in all of history in your Twitter username

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          Not really, catholic church definitely killed more people, though most indirectly in associacion, and was also definitely much less intensive since Hitler did all that in just a dozen years and most of it in mere 6.

          • ☭CommieWolf☆
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            Oh, no doubt, if you mean just generally people I agree that the Catholic church tops it, but I’d say Hitler/Nazi Germany probably inflicted more death onto white Europeans than the Church. It was no different than the countless genocides and killings committed by Europeans on the colonized world for hundreds of years prior, but against other Europeans primarily.

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              I can’t even count the number would it be, definitely the genocide of America, there are also crusades, Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires etc. But the number of whites is not insignificant also, definitely higher than Hitler, since 1500+ years of feudalism in Europe gets them heavily complicit by supporting the oppression and should be counted just as we count the victims of capitalism dying from hunger, preventable disease etc.

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    So by that logic, as long as non-white people exist, then any and all horrid actions caused by Imperialism and Capitalism are justified 100%. They believe that as long as you look at the current situation, you can judge the inhabitants of that nation for all of its flaws and shortcomings. Example: Look at Afghanistan right now. If we are to believe the OP, then this is solely the fault of Afghan people for being “stupid” or something. Forget all context for why the situation is what it is, just judge it and don’t think twice. How about Ukraine? Are we to believe that the country is friendly to Fascism and they are losing a war because “they’re stupid” or are there bigger factors as play here? God what a dumb fucking post, they really thought that the IQ point was slick

    • @supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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      410 months ago

      There is no logic to any of this shit. Sometimes these people just are who they are. Someone that just woke up white and thinks that makes them superior is not going to think too hard about this.

      I have always wondered for every feel good story about a white supremacist redeemed, how many actually double down.