Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says
Do Americans really want this crap? I can’t believe that we don’t hold our governments accountable.
structural racism and overt racism exist in America and most other places too.
all Americans grow up in the racist society that exists here, some of them attempt to fight it, many others don’t like it but don’t find a way to resist. others actively build and support it.
You don’t get it. Their racism is even in the little things: asking for someone’s ascendency, the obssession with “race” classification (there’s only ine race: the human race), the segregation that led to certain ethnic “accents” and so on. All of this shit helps to build up a Geoge Floyd.
American racism is pervasive and there are idiosyncratic ways in which it is expressed here, but Europe and Asia, for example, have their big and small ways of expressing it too. look at how people from Africa or Turkey are treated in Europe, or groups like the Sami, Romani, Uighur, and indigenous peoples everywhere. As another example, Latin America has pervasive colorism, which can also appear in pseudoscientific ways.
none of this is to excuse or minimize American racism. it’s one of the nation’s core atrocities. I just want people in other places to admit how much of a problem it is where they are too.
Hell, even the fact that the term “African American” was invented because “black” was considered offensive. Judgement was baked right in (or at least assumed to be by enough that this somehow got popular) to using their skin colour as a descriptor.
Which then led to many people being called “African American” despite having no connection to either Africa or America.
This. That Black and Negro are considered offensive is baffling in comparison to White and Brown (this one isn’t in the same status than White though so it might be used offensively by some racist mouth shitter).
All Americans are racist, they are born in a culturally racist society. You have to live outside the US to get it.
structural racism and overt racism exist in America and most other places too.
all Americans grow up in the racist society that exists here, some of them attempt to fight it, many others don’t like it but don’t find a way to resist. others actively build and support it.
You don’t get it. Their racism is even in the little things: asking for someone’s ascendency, the obssession with “race” classification (there’s only ine race: the human race), the segregation that led to certain ethnic “accents” and so on. All of this shit helps to build up a Geoge Floyd.
American racism is pervasive and there are idiosyncratic ways in which it is expressed here, but Europe and Asia, for example, have their big and small ways of expressing it too. look at how people from Africa or Turkey are treated in Europe, or groups like the Sami, Romani, Uighur, and indigenous peoples everywhere. As another example, Latin America has pervasive colorism, which can also appear in pseudoscientific ways.
none of this is to excuse or minimize American racism. it’s one of the nation’s core atrocities. I just want people in other places to admit how much of a problem it is where they are too.
Hell, even the fact that the term “African American” was invented because “black” was considered offensive. Judgement was baked right in (or at least assumed to be by enough that this somehow got popular) to using their skin colour as a descriptor.
Which then led to many people being called “African American” despite having no connection to either Africa or America.
This. That Black and Negro are considered offensive is baffling in comparison to White and Brown (this one isn’t in the same status than White though so it might be used offensively by some racist mouth shitter).