"White genocide" has been a longstanding American myth, going back to the early Republic, when some of the new country's most famous names claimed that Native Americans needed to be exterminated because they had committed genocide against a lost (and fictitious) white race of Mound Builders. - ThreadSky

jasoncolavito.bsky.social • 16 days ago

"White genocide" has been a longstanding American myth, going back to the early Republic, when some of the new country's most famous names claimed that Native Americans needed to be exterminated because they had committed genocide against a lost (and fictitious) white race of Mound Builders.

Reposted from Greg Sargent

Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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moonmayor.bsky.social•15 days ago

How Mormon isn't the official religion of this awful country I'll never understand

jasoncolavito.bsky.social•15 days ago

Short version? Polygamy was too weird for Victorian-era America.

moonmayor.bsky.social•15 days ago

Bunch of prudes that ruined everything

manticorn.bsky.social•15 days ago

And they were SO CLOSE to making the US like a gigantic Vatican but for Mormons

rhubarb-and-rue.bsky.social•15 days ago

The only white genocides I can think of were England against the Irish and Welsh, possibly France against the Basque (if it is genocide?), possibly the Ottomans against Armenians (if they are considered white?), and, oh yes, the ACTUAL HOLOCAUST (tho people who deny that don't think Jews are white).

drgeoffreym.bsky.social•15 days ago

This (the Mound Builders and need for extermination part) isn't a story I had heard. Can you point me to a good resource if you have the time?

jasoncolavito.bsky.social•15 days ago

Of course! In fact, I wrote one: "The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a 'Lost White Race'" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020). https://www.jasoncolavito.com/the-mound-builder-myth.html

drgeoffreym.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thank you!

manticorn.bsky.social•15 days ago

Well. Ya learn something new every day. Don't know why I never connected the dots from "white people built every great thing" to this.

ctraceywrites.bsky.social•15 days ago

I'm still constantly arguing with people about the MYTH of Irish slavery. I have family who just will not accept that it didn't happen.

I even got gifted FOR MY BIRTHDAY a copy of To Hell Or Barbados to "educate me." The person who gave it to my was NOT HAPPY when I posted by thoughts on the book.

gottsmote.bsky.social•15 days ago

My father is a firm believer that abortion only exist to help reduce the white population.

jamesschilf.bsky.social•15 days ago

The South African president should have replied with naked pics of Melania

sevenstarhand.bsky.social•15 days ago

Want to better understand what is "stuck in his craw" and living rent free in his head, right now? Open the thread and it'll be obvious. Getting hard for him to conceal his insane obsession with me that is about to end his time in office.
https://bsky.app/profile/sevenstarhand.bsky.social/post/3lpcq67f7pk2v

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