
jesus h christ it’s not the goddamn pain olympics people. there are different forms of oppression applied in different ways to a whole slew of minority groups. splitting hairs like this only works to fracture alliances and ignore intersectionality. several groups could go blow for blow with the injustices that have been waged against them throughout their history and continue to this day. playing the who has it worse game only serves the people that keep us down
It is to this day still legal to rape native Americans. Can you find anywhere in the country where that is true of black people? Also what about things like church rock, the worst nuclear disaster in American history that you probably haven’t even heard about because all the victims were Navajo so nobody ever felt like reporting on it.
Ok lets put it like this. Some one takes your land and puts you on a spot that you werent originally placed. Displacing you. Ok sure yeah horrible but yet you are free. Now imagine someone takes you on a boat to a new land and forces you to work hours on end till you die or you try and go on strike and you die. Im not discrediting anything but saying rape is worse than being killed as a slave isnt that same.
The Jewish population will recover from the Holocaust in about 10-20 years estimated. The Native American population is about that far from recovering from pre-Columbian America. The natives weren’t just displaced, they were genocided so badly that it took 6 times longer for their population to recover than the victims of the Holocaust.
That’s the thing though, an enslaved individual could always rebel enough to the point that they would be killed. They had a choice between the two. Obviously, it is a choice between two horrible options, but it is a choice. The natives didn’t have that. They were just killed with no thought put behind it.
When was the last time you heard someone like Jasmine Crockett, Barack Obama, or Kamala Harris talk about Native American issues? They will talk about problems black America faces. They will talk about problems poor Americans face. They will talk about problems women in America face. But even the most radical intersectionalist you know has ignored the native Americans. That is why it has to be called out.
There were slaves that were bought to fight to the death. There were slaves bought for sexual pleasure. There were slaves bought for house work, field work, or just to be made an example of. Torture is worse than death. Also being killed bc youre black was and sometimes still a thing. The buffalo shooting for example. Youre talking more about past. Blacks have been oppressed more in this country practically its existence.