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Not enough Americans equate 100 years of Jim Crow Laws with fascism (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that a surprise though? Fascism is just a word that means "imperialism done to white people"

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It's true that Nazi Germany, Italy, and friends had colonization projects in Africa, but people didn't create a new word about it because that's generally understood for what it is. But when they did it to other Europeans, suddenly THAT requires an update in vocabulary and a paradigm shift? Do white people think they're too good to be colonized or what