I'll go ahead with slavery and the genocide of Native Americans as the lowest points but who am I to say. - ThreadSky

timnitgebru.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I'll go ahead with slavery and the genocide of Native Americans as the lowest points but who am I to say.

I truly believe today is the lowest point in American history.

And the terrifying thing is, I don't think we're going anywhere but down—unless We The People decide we will not.

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lepetersseattle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you!

chazsandiego.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wanted to disagree but until we have our second civil war you are more correct.

nutshellgulag.bsky.social•1 day ago

A house built on rotten foundations is going to collapse. 😩

teachmw.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Them electing the idiot twice should make the list lol

yehuda1491.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly, wtf white people...

bogyankee.bsky.social•1 day ago

If it weren't for hyperbole, we wouldn't have no bole at all!

21cpedagogy.bsky.social•1 day ago

When ever we, white people, say things like this I like to remind them we used to think it was okay to buy & enslave Black people (& so much worse), we imprisoned Japanese people, we destroyed Native American lands & killed swaths of their people…just to name a few “things that are worse.”

scottwhitegloves.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe people think this “worst ever“ thing is because everyone in Ukraine is white?

antidominionist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

No, we think it's the worst because this reverses so much progress, outs the White House as an arm of the Kremlin, isolates the US from it's real allies, and could mean outright war with Europe - and proxy if not actual wars with Canada, Mexico, Australia, etc.. But hey, points for sarcasm.

timnitgebru.bsky.social•18 hours ago

No you think its the worst because apparently what happens to nonwhite people, like rape, genocide and enslavement is not that bad.

akabibi.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ummm...what happened yesterday was horrible but I don't think it would make my top 10 or lowest 10,I guess 🤦🏽‍♀️

intedena.bsky.social•1 day ago

In the opposite order, but yup.

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean there is such a long list. Like the time we accused Afghanistan of 9/11 when it was the US's own allies, Saudis...and then we bombed the hell out of Afghanistan and just pulled out like that with people hanging on to the planes for dear life, just a couple of years ago.

lizthegrey.com•1 day ago

Japanese internment and Jim Crow, too.

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remember that time we made up "weapons of mass destruction" out of thin air and invaded a whole ass country with OVER 1.2 MILLION ESTIMATED DEATHS?

That was us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_survey_of_Iraq_War_casualties

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean this was just a few months ago.

The actual lowest points in the US is how the country shows over and over again that only white people are considered, well, people.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/20/us-vetoes-un-security-council-resolution-demanding-gaza-ceasefire

laserpony.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right?!?! Jfc

elfqueeng.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not even sure it was the lowest point in trump's second term.

kayawanu.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I love the way these people just conveniently forget the US has been waging terror and war for 200 years. What they mean is ' now the standards they accepted for others is being applied to them'

timnitgebru.bsky.social•15 hours ago

That's the definition of "fascism" isn't it? Like colonization hitting home or standards applied to everyone else hitting white people.

greatpretender133.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Foucault's Boomerang or Imperial Boomerang are other terms for it

kayawanu.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Watching it happen in real time in so called Australia as well.
How could this happen they cry as they rally around an election based on which race they hate the most.

northofhome.bsky.social•14 hours ago

https://www.change.org/p/deport-elon-musk-he-is-a-threat-to-american-democracy

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