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Our goverment has illegally sold many of our water, riverbanks and burnt acres and acres of native land. The buyers are US and Israel.

hearing people I thought were well-read political commentators calling us "colonizers" because how our diaspora is formed, how our history turned out, disregarding the history of Latin America as a whole, disregarding Native People's history, calling us both Nazi and Israeli supporters at the same time, blaming us for things the US is constantly doing without anyone questioning, and they're moving to target other South American countries through the world cup as a vehicle

I've said it before on here but South America is being intervened, either by force, by pressure or by economic support, the usa has systematically performed and still is performing political and economic measures to continue helping, advocating for, defending and even forcibly setting far-right leaders and governments in Latin America to use our land, to get our resources, to private our infrastructure to private US-based companies

we are constantly, continuously indebted by leaders they place, support or influence, they handle the media that paints the narrative to people, the debt they put us in, which every far-right pendejo they manage to support and put on government takes back again once any of us is able to repay it keeps us poor, ignorant and lusting for the “dream” they market through amazon and hollywood

using campaigns of hatred to dehumanize nations they want to take stuff from isn't new but in this era of fast and short information and when so called "leftist" influencers in prominent countries are willing to repeat vitriol instead of looking deeper into what is causing this sudden hatred, the damage is huge

Our goverment has illegally sold many of our water, riverbanks and burnt acres and acres of native land. The buyers are US and Israel.

I've seen people (Afroargentinians, indigenous argentinians, brown argentinians, white argentinians, mestizo, hell even asian argentinians) explaining and recontextualizing and trying and trying. I have seen people who are not even arguing anything get swarmed by hateful comments for using the Argentinian shirt, even worse if they're foreigners who have embraced our country. I have seen these comments telling them "argentinians want you dead, argentinians would turn on you".

They hide behind "you all think like your goverment". They refuse to listen to any nuance on the region. They quote examples of racism and anti-indigenous in Argentina without context, without understanding this shit hurts argentinians first. Brown argentinians are the first victims of argentinian racism.

In this foreign narrative, they don't exist. We don't exist as people, we're a concept. The nazi country. The shithole.

While all of this is happening, Milei is trying to pass a law that allows foreign companies to acquire largue quantities of land. Israeli companies and diplomats are circling us like vultures. The US and Europe are getting for cheap local scientific advancements worth millions.

There’s an entire literary genre built around the cosmopolitan who loves the Global South—as long as the Global South loses with elegance and dignity. Ishaan Tharoor has written a masterpiece in that genre.

He makes a list of the World Cup’s "charming countries": the Japanese cleaning the stadium, the kind Koreans, Vozinha, the noble loser. All lovable, endearing, unforgettable. All eliminated.

The truth is that this kind of picturesque admiration comes with conditions. The "other" is worth celebrating only as long as they remain endearing. And more often than not, they’re considered endearing because they lose and pose no threat to power.

Tharoor built his "love" for Argentina around its decline: hyperinflation, chaos, a team supposedly suffering from injustice. That’s an aesthetic relationship with the periphery. The moment the periphery stops being picturesque and starts winning, the toy breaks.

His use of Eduardo Galeano’s quote about Maradona and Napoli makes the point obvious: it celebrates a dark South humiliating the white North that had despised it. Then he uses that same quote to argue that Argentina is now the North. That’s where the unspoken assumption slips in: the South American who "looks" European somehow no longer counts as a victory for the Global South.

Argentina is part of the Global South whether he likes it or not. That isn’t something he gets to decide based on whether he finds the country sympathetic. On top of that, he argues that Argentina has become part of the establishment because Milei was supposedly going to be sitting next to Trump in the stands (which now doesn't even appear to be true). It’s exactly the opposite.

An Argentine invited to a stadium in New Jersey, sitting beside the people who hold power, is about as peripheral a scene as you can imagine.

Mistaking proximity for power is a basic analytical error. We were never less sovereign than when we were at our friendliest with those in power. The embrace is submission without friction—a surrender. The problem isn't that Argentina somehow became "bad." The reality is much simpler: Tharoor liked an Argentina that lost.

Yes i am not black, i will not dictate what black people should feel against Argentina ofc, but i am latina, which is something thag i have in common with argentinians, and even if ofc the 'corran la bola' chant is not excusable whatsoever, the layers that it actually has are so overlooked to the point that it makes people look stupid.

The reason why i say it is the fact that something that i have seen ARGENTINIANS say is something that is a reality in ALL of Latam, a racism and ignorance problem, that when the colonizer's ideas and words have not been erased yet, it still sticks into its day to day, yes Argentina have racist people, and yet it has black people that love and support their nation despite it, because the push for more education on how black people SHOULD be treated and mentioned is not something that changes overnight, just like how it has done in other countries with wayyy worser history with the treatment of black people.

But that isn't EXCLUSIVELY in Argentina, I've seen brazilians talk about how despite the laws put solely for racism, their system still has major flaws with it, and also how us in Latam the language used when it comes to black people varies and its most of the time ignorant, but again, its a whole Latam problem, not every latino is racist ofc, but its a problem that involves all of us, some more than others, yet its a community issue all the same.

So im not saying "lets forgive the players and give them a pass and all is well🥰✨️" type of thing, fuck no, but what i mean is that this whole Argentina racism campaign honestly just pushes back on progress that could even be applied to actual black people in Argentina, racism isn't exclusive to Argentina, there ARE black people in Argentina, so the math doesn't even matj from the start

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It's ultimately idiotic to whine over how many red cards were awarded in a match a or *squints eyes* whether Bellingham suffered from homophobia I guess??? When this is the picture that went around the world. This was the cover of multiple journals, it was plastered all over social media just yesterday. This scares Milei, scares the British government, scares FIFA, and it scares all fascists. I don't think we're appreciating it enough.

This visibilizes a cause we've been seeking justice over for the last 44 years while the world undermined it. This is one step towards making everyone aware of the dark bits of history that everyone is ignorant to. It's not just Malvinas. It's the U.S. backed military dictatorship that sent all those hungry teenagers to fight trained soldiers. It's the mourning that surrounds us every day. It's what makes us relentless and hungry for the fight. Both on and off the pitch.

I don't think we appreciate enough just how revolutionary the consequences of this will be.

This is what happens when famous people use a massive, international platform to speak out against injustice in the world.

FIFA, England, Trump, Javier Milei: the world is watching. And what they've seen cannot be unseen. And what they read cannot be unread. And this picture will live in the history books and the minds of football fans for ages.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.