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yeah it's possible I bit off more than I could chew with this one

Just a point of historical clarification though, degeneration theory is much older than nazism: it originated in Enlightenment philosophical theories about society and nature, with some significant points of crystallization in the late 18th century by Immanuel Kant, mid-19th century by Benedict Morel, and by Max Nordau in 1892.

The Nazis were a PRODUCT of the prestige philosophy that believed in racial degeneration, the ideas that led to genocide were current throughout Europe and the Americas and were used to justify colonial genocides throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

I think it’s important to understand how deeply rooted this is in European philosophy and social theory because it helps counter the idea that Nazism was some kind of unique aberration. If we recognize the patterns that gave rise to it we have a better chance of responding effectively to those patterns

Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Haunted by Empire edited by Ann Laura Stoler

Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock

and like, I know people who are transphobic in that if you pitched to them a question about trans people they would likely say something bigoted. But they just don't think about trans people at all and live perfectly fulfilling social lives.

There's something so unique about the terf in that the ideological obsession and trying to dance around the idea of their own grievance that they've constructed a worldview on top of being visciated by someone's mere existence drives them absolutely mad. They're lonely and unhappy regardless of anyone's presence before they decided to become transphobic.

We are literally, canonically made from stardust.

Could you imagine how he'd react the moment he found out?

Imagine if we, civilians that most of us are, got our asses killed on the field of battle and the party dragged you back to Withers in a desperate attempt to ressurect us (cuz in my head I doubt regular scrolls would work somehow) and Withers says something off-hand as he takes their gold like "It is harder to bring back errant stardust, but it can be done..." and everyone else just takes it as Withers Being Weird again, but Gale just cocks his head to the side puzzling it over.

You wake up gasping and freaking out because oh my God you literally died and came back and Gale is just like "I'm so glad you're back anyways Withers said-" and he explains it and asks if that means anything.

And you, not thinking much of it cuz you're thinking of more important things, explain that the basic building blocks of life on Earth such as iron, carbon, and calcium, all of them vital and present within yourself right now, were created inside stars as they aged and when the stars died they exploded, scattering those elements across space which allowed for life to emerge on Earth.

And again you might not think it's a big deal cuz like, we been knew about this for a while, but when you look at Gale again his jaw is on the floor because holy shit he's literally speaking to sentient stardust right now and can he take a sample or use some magic to get some kind of reading on you and you're just like "Sure?"

And now a regular part of your day is just having this guy do benign experiments on you and him asking a million more questions than before because lets face it you're from another universe and he already had a ton of questions but this is different and now you'll never be able to shake this guy even if you wanted to---

I just have a lot of thoughts about this guys

this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can't fool her!! she's always watching me and she shouldn't have this much knowledge!!!