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 I've spoken to many people who are trying to undo this axiom under the pretense of "being an ally to minorities" and they are all LARPers. They are the first to meet the disenfranchised with unrelenting scorn as soon as they question the powers that shouldn't be 
 the red flag is trying to change definitions

we got these definitions, and relations between words, from thousands of years of collective effort in communicating

i think the most basic one has been conflating capital (property) with power (capitol), these are based on the latin word "capito" which means to grasp

one means what you have, the other means what you can steal 
 Yeah, it's an attempt to pull people into a frame that's like walking through a hall of funhouse mirrors. A projection of "abstract power," if you will

Just our regularly scheduled 🤡🌎💩. 
 Am I missing something?  Because it looks like y’all are trying to say that light things, including light skin, are objectively good, while dark things, including dark skin, are objectively bad

I’m having trouble believing this is really what you’re trying to say 

Say it ain’t so 
 Definitely not, I'm not even white 
 I was going on a tangent to point out that I've encountered poseurs who pretend to care about people like me while pulling people into a frame that ultimately subjugates and debases everyone 
 Ok, I’m just still having trouble seeing any other interpretation of what @mleku actually posted

I agree, what you’re talking about happens all the time and it’s so frustrating. 
 Glad I was able to clear that up. I'd argue that tying skin color to virtue is part of that frame, too (I grew up in the US where that is common), and it's a divide-and-conquer tactic used by wokes and ethnic nationalists. @mleku isn't referring to skin color at all 
 MY FATHER IS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA, specifically he was born in the region known as West Irian

would this dumb tart like to step down please?

i am more nigger than she is, if that is any basis for privilege to talk about FUCKING LATIN 
 also, i have known many animals that have better manners than people like this eryn bracco

start out with appeals to authority and conflating language with genetics with personality and you are gonna get some schooling from me, and probably a mute right off the bat

i'm more black than most of you twats, for a start

i got fucked by the education system because i refused to not speak my questions

and i'm here building this shit because i think that nostr is extremely important and will have a pivotal role in turning the tide against tyranical, MOSTLY WHITE nephilim fallen angel spawn scum cunts who run the scam that they call "society" right now

except out here in the bush, where they don't get to tell us what to think  
 The nephilim scum have been at it for a while. Only a centralizing entity like a government could have enabled the atrocity that was the Neoslavery Era (the "last slave" was freed in 1942). I've had an ardent hatred for glowies ever since I've found out about COINTELPRO as a teen, and it is vivifying to find out that the ways to slip out of their grasp is increasing. 

Juneteenth is a hollow platitude by the perpetrators. The real emancipation is freedom tech 
 also i'm 1/8th indonesian and my father's skin was dark to very dark depending on how much he was working outside, so much so that in school he was mistaken for an... another insult, "aboriginal"

you know where the word original comes from? latin, it means "the real thing"

guess what the prefix "ab"  means? the opposite, so aboriginal means derivative in fact

indigenous refers to wild animals and plants

WILD ANIMALS

like they aren't humans! 
 i correct myself

the simple word "ab" means "from"

so it means derivative

but they are the originals

and they are not indigenous, look at the definition of "indigent" 

An indigent person is extremely poor, lacking the basic resources of a normal life. Often the indigent lack not only money but homes. Indigent comes from a Latin word meaning wanting, which we used to use to mean “lacking” and not just to describe desires.

another fucking insult

these are racist terms, from elitist psychopathic mfn sons of bitch psychopath nephilim scum dynasties 
 i'm having trouble believing you are trying to use weak pleadings and appeals to authority to insult intelligent people who understand logic

first, you can figure it out yourself, so you don't need anyone's help, unless you are a pathetic slave

second, you are trying to accuse us of conflating dark skin, a property of genetics, with evil, a property of personality

third, you are trying to present the idea that we actually agree with your upside down model of reality

guess what, no, and tell your employers to try harder finding better workers, maybe their deception training program isn't as good as it needs to be, or maybe you are just retarded.