• Tryptaminev
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    6 months ago

    Weird just a few days earlier they said Spain should look to the time of Muslim rule in southern Spain for atrocities against Jews. Which there weren’t Jewish people and culture prospered under the Muslim rule and then got pogromed when the Christians took back over. Now they refer to exactly that.

    It is weird that Israel is hellbent not only on revisionism for its own history, but other peoples history too. Or rather it is pretty straight forward as Israel is a fascist colonial entity and shares its interest in revisionism with the Nazis and other colonial genociders.

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      Which there weren’t Jewish people and culture prospered under the Muslim rule and then got pogromed when the Christians took back over.

      It’s incredibly difficult to overstate how damn correct you are.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_Jewish_culture_in_Spain

      7-8 centuries of Muslim rule, and Jews become renowned as artisans and philosophers.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Jews_from_Spain

      The Catholic kings finish conquering the last bastion of Muslims in Iberia, and immediately next they tell all Muslims and Jews to either convert to Christianity or to flee the peninsula, because they aren’t going to like what’s planned for them next. A very different ruler in Europe welcomed them, however:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Ottoman_Empire

      Basically, the Turks managed to help Constantinople regain some of the economic importance it had gained during the centuries of collapse of the Byzantine Empire because they welcomed Jewish artisans that had been kicked out of Iberia.

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        lol there were plenty of colonialist genociders before the US. The British empire, the Roman Empire, etc.

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            You complete lack of knowledge of the British empire is hilarious in the context of a discussion on colonialism.

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                the United States when talking about colonial genociders considering it’s the OG

                The OG huh?

                What’s OG mean you inveterate cunt?

                What came before the US you dense motherfucker?

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                    No one is denying that indigenous American people were genocided.

                    Everyone is pointing out that others did it first, to other populations, and the USA in no way can considered the “OG”.

                    You dumb fuck.

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            The US isn’t the original coloniser. Ghengis Khan did a bloody good job 900 years ago. Alexander the Great was Over 2000 years ago. The US is just shy of 250 years old. So how the fuck is the US the OG (Original gangster)…

            I guess your history knowledge is pretty pethetic… Either that or you don’t know what the terms you’re using means

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                Navajo weren’t the original genocide, it also wasn’t one of the biggest, History doesn’t begin when the US was founded.

                Albigensian Crusade (Cathar genocide) where they killed 1 000 000 people was back in the year 1209, it is one of the first documented genocides.

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                Enraging yourself because you don’t have the mental capacity is hilarious. History didn’t start 250 years ago with the US. If you had a proper well-rounded education you might understand that.

                I suggest you go read a book within your ability. Try “Spot the dog goes to school”. It.might be a little advanced for you but you can lift the flaps.