The Willow person is confused, they are mistaking the effect for the cause and vice versa because they have an idealistic, anti-materialist view on the relationship between capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy, but i don’t think they said anything that actually counts as reactionary. This post may be under the wrong community.
I agree. This would have been better suited for /c/leftistinfighting or possibly /c/shitultrassay, because this isn’t somebody defending capitalism. It’s more like a mildly heated argument between anticapitalists over whether the chicken or the egg came first. Far from a good example of reactionary misbehavior.
I don’t see their confusion, the colonizers felt they had the God given right to take over lands and peoples for themselves. That mentality is what would lead to capitalism not vice versa. That’s why capitalism and many other competitions today still favor white people because many of the rules were set up to reward their vision of greatness. The only nuance I might add would be a more narrow depiction of who they considered white compared to how we refer to whiteness today. A more holistic view of the battle we have on our hands to dismantle the power structures that oppress people today would include the colonialist supremecist roots they grew from.
The Willow person is confused, they are mistaking the effect for the cause and vice versa because they have an idealistic, anti-materialist view on the relationship between capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy, but i don’t think they said anything that actually counts as reactionary. This post may be under the wrong community.
I agree. This would have been better suited for /c/leftistinfighting or possibly /c/shitultrassay, because this isn’t somebody defending capitalism. It’s more like a mildly heated argument between anticapitalists over whether the chicken or the egg came first. Far from a good example of reactionary misbehavior.
I don’t see their confusion, the colonizers felt they had the God given right to take over lands and peoples for themselves. That mentality is what would lead to capitalism not vice versa. That’s why capitalism and many other competitions today still favor white people because many of the rules were set up to reward their vision of greatness. The only nuance I might add would be a more narrow depiction of who they considered white compared to how we refer to whiteness today. A more holistic view of the battle we have on our hands to dismantle the power structures that oppress people today would include the colonialist supremecist roots they grew from.