• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    thousands who died resisting civilization

    Feels like this is, itself, highly revisionist. To claim these native communities had no civilization? No professions or languages or shared traditions or sciences?

    We know their stories

    We don’t know their stories. Far too much was lost. That’s the great tragedy of the Columbian exchange.

    Anti-civ and nihilism are absolutely fascist urges. Pretending early civilizations didn’t exist only furthers the fascist narrative that whiteness and modernism are conjoined.

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      21 days ago

      Civilisation from a anti/post-civ has specific meaning within the context of itself and contemporary society.

      Anti-civ and nihilism are absolutely fascist urges.

      No they are not, and such badjacketing will not be tolerated further.