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![[Black-owned bookstores] saw their sales skyrocket. The cause for this spike was, in the main, people who had been exposed to George Floyd's murder coming to suspect that they had not been taught the entire truth about justice, history, policing, racism, and any number of other related subjects. The spike only lasted that summer-but it was enough to leave the executors of 13950 shook. And they were right to be.
History is not inert but contains within it a story that implicates or justifies political order. So it was with Josiah Nott looking back to Ancient Egypt to justify slavery. And so it is with the American Revolution and the founding of a great republic, or the Greatest Generation who did not fight to defend merely the homeland but the entire world. If you believe that history, then you are primed to believe that the American state is a force for good, that it is the world's oldest democracy, and that those who hate America hate it for its freedoms. And if you believe that, then you can believe that these inexplicable haters of freedom are worthy of our drones. But a different history, one that finds its starting point in genocide and slavery, argues for a much darker present and the possibility that here too are haters of freedom, unworthy of the power they wield. A po-
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November 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM
that's a terrible idea what about the Aesthetics have you seen my discord it's incredible look at this
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November 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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