"I believed our ranks were filled with people like me that opposed Hitler’s far right policies, not Lebensraum itself. " negative

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I’m reminded of Fanon’s observation that the colonial dehumanization of the colonized subject also requires that colonizers dehumanize themselves.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          hooks says more or less the same thing about patriarchy; Before you can create a man who serves the patriarchy you have to beat all the compassion and humanity out of a little boy.

          You have to make monsters, you can’t just go dig them out of cave like in Narnia or whatever.