Talk about how imperialism has been oppressing European tribal culture, spirituality, and history and how the roman empire did to European tribes that the British empire did with African peoples, and how they US empire did with indigenous tribes and dies today with middle eastern societies. - ThreadSky

milliefae.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Talk about how imperialism has been oppressing European tribal culture, spirituality, and history and how the roman empire did to European tribes that the British empire did with African peoples, and how they US empire did with indigenous tribes and dies today with middle eastern societies.

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scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hey. I'm also pagan but i don't think that's on him. It's a larger question that needs to be addressed, but at the moment Palestine and racism in the United States should be at the forefront.

milliefae.bsky.social•5 days ago

As a leader of a diverse population, and as a history PhD, there are expectations from an inclusive campaign that highlights historical kinship in each of us. For example, there's no such thing as "pagan". That is roman catholic for "gentile". You are likely druid or other indigenous identifier.

milliefae.bsky.social•5 days ago

Historically significant to how an imperial occupation subverted, chastised, and demonized local spirituality, cultural, and community. Precisely as British empire did with Africans, the US empire did with indigenous folk, and Germany did with jeudism.

scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also got a little confused about your equivalencies there. You went one way in the first comment and did a hard curve later on. So, yes - we wanna talk about American slavery, German nazis, British imperialism, it's all bad

milliefae.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's not just bad, it's the driving force behind all discrimination. Imperialism. The one common militant and oppressive force is Imperialism. It does not have a race, religion, or creed. Nor does it have a face, commerce, or prosperity for its people. That's all I am, quite poorly, describing.

scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

But I don't think you can argue that the present day material effects are the same as slavery.

milliefae.bsky.social•5 days ago

I could. Though the worst off are still minority groups. Tantamount to the exact dynamics of the period of slavery. It's not as if we don't know not all yt folk had or could even afford slaves, an argument with abundance of unifying nuance against oligarchy. The secondary force driving racism.

scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

So, I think there's a point at which the internet and even this app make things confusing. I'm from an Irish and American folk religion/pagan background. Pagan erasure sucks. But it's important for *all of us* to protect whatever group is targeted at some point in time. And we probably agree.

scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

Did not read this before my earlier post.

So, as someone who is also privileged with a JD, etc, etc, your thesis is that your history degree somehow trumps self-identification from the people who are actually part of a given community? Have you seen the 1992 film Candyman?

milliefae.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ware has the credentials that raise these expectations. A scholars' identity is irrelevant to history, and a leaders identity is irrelevant to a steward of a diverse community. Individual accomplishment in disadvantaged environments, despite identity playing a role, are the measures of character.

scottybsf.bsky.social•5 days ago

That is literally word salad that means nothing outside of academia.

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