Comments by "j. rodman" (@jsrodman) on "Sunak Insults The Greek Nation | Pod Save The UK" video.

  1. It's almost like the UK doesn't really care about the needs of the Irish.
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  2. I don't like the idea of gross words on their own being a crime, but I deplore people-as-food. Food is something you consume. It's a product. People are not products. Don't call people rice, potatoes, oreos, coconuts, mangos, burritos, beaners, chocolate, whatever. It's not the most extreme form of dehumanization, but it's dehumanizing.
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  3. Both of these systems originated in the same places and have been interlinked for their histories. To expand a bit, the idea of race was built in order to justify empire, in terms of "we have all these enslaved brown people why is this okay?" Race was cooked up to explain it. Now, why did we have all these slaves? To exploit their labor and accrue capital. You might think race is a normal, natural idea. But it's a pretty recent construct, about 200 years old. We don't need it. And whiteness is the blessing of oppression by and within this system.
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