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Whities really did just go around killing everything. (hexbear.net)

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Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men "frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them."

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 61 points 3 weeks ago

the link between imperialism and environmental damage will forever remain strong

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

While it is a subset of imperialism, colonialism and the extractionary systems it created in the global south in order to bankroll the industrial revolution is deserving of a special shout out.