So the history of the modern state can also be read as the history of race, bringing together the stories of two kinds of victims of European political modernity: the internal victims of state building and the external victims of imperial expansion. Hannah Arendt noted this in her monumental study on the Holocaust, which stands apart for one reason: rather than talk about the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Arendt sited it in the imperial history of genocide. The history she sketched was that of European settlers killing off native populations. Arendt understood the history of imperialism through the workings of racism and bureaucracy, institutions forged in the course of European expansion into the non-European world: “Of the two main political devices of imperialist rule, race was discovered in South Africa, and bureaucracy in Algeria, Egypt and India.” Hannah Arendt’s blind spot was the New World. Both racism and genocide had occurred in the American colonies earlier than in South Africa. The near decimation of Native Americans through a combination of slaughter, disease, and dislocation was, after all, the first recorded genocide in modern history.
Those are Mahmood Mamdani’s words. My prayers and supplications for India and all the oppressed!
How true your words. History shows enslavery at one time in almost all nations. If not technically defined, at least a beaten down class of people deprived of all matters of human dignity. How sad that we haven’t grown as a species and see its ugly intolerance even today.
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They are Mahmood Mamdani’s and they describe our animalistic side.
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Yes, some humans are savages. And history is full of them.
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Will we heed the lessons?
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We should, but history teaches us that we tend to repeat our mistakes. 😦
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Yes. That plate of greed would never get filled!
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I was about to leave a comment about the history of genocide in the New World, but you got there before I did. For which I’m grateful.
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Thank you so much! I am looking forward to reading yours🌻
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Come on, sistah! Let’s be clear! The Roman Empire did not end. It simply became the Vatican and its compilation of death, inquisition and crusade… for about two millennia.
And just now… it seems we are in another period of mass extermination, based on their new campaign of supremacist conquest… which has begun in Wuhan.
It was reported 10 years ago. They call it ‘The Anglo-Saxon mission’.
http://projectavalon.net/lang/en/anglo_saxon_mission_en.html
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I never heard of this before! Would you share any book about that? Thanks in advance.
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I took a look at the link and I think this one’s off the deep end.
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I have already left you the main link of everything I was talking about. Search from that website on forward… or just check both of my last posts regarding the issue:
https://lanubedeoort.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/ten-years-after-1/
https://lanubedeoort.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/anglo-saxon-mission-1/
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Informative!
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Thank you!
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Awesome Post Thanks for sharing 😍
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You are most welcome!
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Absolutely true!
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Amazing post on India😊
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Thank you so much!
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A very insightful post. Will humanity ever be free from oppression and bigotry?
Thanks for sharing.
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You are most welcome!
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Howdy Gehad!
I really appreciate being reminded of Hannah Arendt’s realization that the Holocaust was just an extension of European genocide and brutal oppression. Unfortunately, Europeans/North Americans aren’t the only ones committing genocide, but we are the dominate culture of our time and very responsible for the current state of the world.As such, it really is up to white people and Western culture to repair the damage and end the racism that is the root cause of the genocides we’ve engaged in.
Huzzah!
Jack
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totally agree with you! thanks for your comment.
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Thank you!
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