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MrPotatoeHead wrote

My point was that we are moving toward two classes. You are 100% correct in that white Europeans slaughtered and stole from others, for hundreds of years. Billionaires run the Western world and now China has its own set of billionaires that are not white in any way, but still suppress workers to gain more wealth.

I respect your well thought out comment.

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GaldraChevaliere wrote

I don't think we're moving towards them, I think they've always been a necessary component of any imperialist structure, whether that be feudalism or the pax romana or the modern world. East Asians definitely commit abuses on polynesians, siberians and south/central asians and that absolutely should not be discounted or downplayed.

But it's symptomatic of a concept that was codified in a very major way by rich european empires; France, Spain, England and Holland in particular. Just like those ethnic groups propped up by empire (along with Germany and Sweden at the heights of their power, and in the modern world ((post-victorian)) by just about every 'developed' western country especially America) kicked down and exploited Irish, Italians, Poles, Travelers, and European Jews and Romani while still focusing their efforts on the systemic stripping of sovereignty and resources from other continents, Japan and China have exercised imperialist oppression against the Ainu, Malay, Mongolians, Uhgyurs and a host of others I don't know well enough to speak of. But that system has it roots in a very specific breed of colonisation that was developed by the people who would label themselves 'white', and that cannot be overlooked.

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