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Europe's racist exploitative past involved exploiting people in other countries, and later closing off borders to the same people
The US's racist exploitative past involved exploiting people within the US itself, who were eventually given citizenship but continue to be exploited https://twitter.com/BigSascha/status/1266569270663806978
The US's racist exploitative past involved exploiting people within the US itself, who were eventually given citizenship but continue to be exploited https://twitter.com/BigSascha/status/1266569270663806978
it's not that Europe isn't racist a.f., it's that they've systemically avoided a situation (via racist immigration policy, among other things) where non-whites become enough of a fraction of the population that these problems have a chance to crop up so visibly
color is absolutely an issue in Europe, y'all have just perfected systemic racism to the point where your everyday European doesn't notice it happening
aside: I don't want to recenter the conversation on the (far less problematic) plight of people who look like me, but I want to note that have received far more weird stares and racist comments in Europe than ever in the US.
I recall seeing a thread about similar police violence against black people in the UK https://twitter.com/illh0eminati/status/1266441604170223617?s=19
See also this excellent thread https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1057394276672438272?s=19
right, Brexit was a vicious racist reaction to perceived *marginally less restrictive* immigration policies of other EU countries! https://twitter.com/algo_luca/status/1266861654723133440?s=19
