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I been somewhat following the "Argentinians being Extremely Racist during the World Cup" saga, and like... BONKERS lmao. How do you manage to purge an African population of 30% without some true hate 😭

It does explain that mindset that I have always found odd about Latin American racism, which is that (valid!) resentment of the US for being part of the Global North and Imperial Core, while simultaneously sharing so many of its racist, white supremacist beliefs. It's like... So you don't hate the racism portion? That's not the problem to you? 😅

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1551&context=law_globalstudies

Hi, biracial colombian here(making this clear since I’ve noticed one of the most common things people like you do is assume people on her talking about racism are always white and either from the usa or from europe). It is absolutely not a white supremacist myth to acknowledge the fact that Argentina did very much try to purge its Black population. Cut that “hiding my racism behind the facade of anti-imperialism” bullshit for two seconds and try to think on why the fuck did we latinoamericanos ended up having a lot of multiracial heritage. It wasn’t just something that happened on a whim, it wasn’t just “population just got mixed early on,” it was a result of trying to whiten the Indigenous (and later on the Black) population. Blanquiamento. A term that is still nowadays extremely important to our relationship with race as latinoamericanos, due to it still taking place in the context of individual and family settings. Yes, brown people in Argentina exist, but if we want to look at say, statistics, then you’d have to admit that the majority of Argentinians are white and of european descent.

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And yes a lot of them do very much believe themselves to be europeans lol ask anyone from any other country in latinoamerica, ask argentinians themselves, a lot of them will agree on the a reason why for a lot of us they’re not considered part of latinoamerica. Because they. They don’t really want to be.

y cuando digo que la idea de que en argentina solo hay gente blanca es un mito de supremacía blanco, estoy diciendo algo muy real. hubo todo un movimiento estatal, sobre todo a finales del siglo xix y comienzos del xx, para tratar de negar y ocultar el hecho de que argentina tenía una gran cantidad de población de color. se trató de tapar y ocultar estos colectivos. por ejemplo, hubo toda una campaña mediática y cultural por parte del estado para tratar de ocultar que buenos aires fue fundada por una misión enviada desde paraguay conformada por europeos, sí, pero también mucho criollo mixto y guaraníes.

el racismo estatal existió y existe, pero no tomó la forma que los gringos acusan. no hubo "purga" racial a la gente negra. llamar a los casamientos interraciales un "blanqueamiento" es de por sí muy controversial.

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

NOT THE CRABS WE EXPECTED BUT STILL SOME CRABS WE DESERVE!!!

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