This is what British people discovering American natives was like, it was so mindblowing to them that these foreign "barbaric" people were able (more able in fact) to communicate with good manners and intentions. Yet they still stayed racist as fuck and the intellectual community tried to avoid attributing ideological contributions to the actual natives that thought of them.
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One of things that stood out to me learning about European contact with natives was that the reports from Euros were largely like "omg look at these weird savages, we must teach them about the Lord and good manners!" But many tribes, having come into contact with various other tribes with different cultures for centuries, were like "Oh look, people, lets say hey and give them gifts." From a young age I had the thought "the Europeans were actually the less civilized and cultured people weren't they?"
The weirdest ever European colonial contact will be that time a group of Brits assumed a group of gorillas were violent hairy natives. And sent back a very confused written report about it.
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I took a weekend course and unlearned racism. Still have the diploma.
Dude the final in that course is so hard. You have to meet like 20 representatives from global south nations and not make any racist assumptions about them or compare them to any Disney properties! I failed when I got to Bhutan 
How does one assume anything about Bhutan tho? 
I'ven't heard or seen much people of that country... so I think I must ergo be racially blind and thus neutral to them... I'll definitely pass this test!
they made joe biden's shadow dark evil weed
Wait, the U.S is part of the test? 
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I've heard they eat a lot of butter and butter based foods there, so that's why I failed.
I expected a swarthy man to sell me a magic lamp of some sort
The author of this article gets a sunburn if he goes outdoors when the moon is full.
this man dissolves on contact with any food that isn't plain white bread
Dead 💀😭
"I was expecting a 17th century warlord, but he wore modern clothes! Also he kept his distance from me for some reason..."
He just saw Dune and wanted to experience it :(
Wow you don't look like the swarthy dangerous middle easterner at all, how quaint!
Wow, you look really smart for someone of your skin color!
Reporter: @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml
Reason: Blatant racism
Lmao
Published articles and private reports are indistinguishable
NO SHOT SOMEONE REPORTED THIS FOR RACISM. LMAO.
I love federation. It’s been so good for us.
Oh wah. Crackers, will never even start cleaning the historical hecatombs of other, often-oppressed people's blood off their hands.
Bio essentialism is bad
On the other hand, wh*tes
I'm white and I've gone to great lengths to educate myself and unlearn a lot of the racism that permeates every aspect of this wretched society.
That being said, I'm staring to believe in yakub theory.
Should have kept the dagger on him to chop this journo's head off
I had half expected to see a swaggering tribesman of the kind I used to meet in Yemen—mouth bulging with khat leaves, a shawl over his shoulders, and a curved dagger at his belt. Instead, Abdelmalek al-Ejri was a neat looking fellow in a blue-tartan blazer and a button-down shirt.
Absolutely has tagline energy. Every time I have clicked the little picture in my feed to expand the text, I have felt the psychic assault as purely as the first time I saw it. I do not think this will get old.
Additionally, if anyone has access to the cutting edge of 
, I would love to see what the racism machine makes of the each of these sentences.
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Dies anyone remember when Milo Stewart (???) said "we're all a little racist" and his comments section was filled with "but doesn't that mean you're racist laugh cry" and was bullied off the internet? (I don't know who he is outside of that)
Always bothers me when comments are clearly responding to the title or something and haven't watched the video. Happens a bit on anti-zionist videos a bit.
I mean...isn't this more about culture differences than race?
It's kind of like: "I expected the man to look like those I'd met in Alabama - straw hanging out of his mouth, beer gut, and empty cans rolling around in the back of his truck. Instead he was a soft spoken, slender fellow, with a neat suit and tie to match"
That doesn't really imply what race they are, just what region they're from and what the narrator what expecting based on where they are?
I dunno if I'm seeing the whole picture here though
It's a bit more of an issue than cultural differences when your only understanding of the world is through the lens of Aladdin.
To even put the blame on "race" would narrow the systemic issues of orientalism and western supremacy as hegemonic discourses that prevent this moron from even being able to see how egregious this paragraph is
I expected the man to look like those I'd met in Alabama - straw hanging out of his mouth, beer gut, and empty cans rolling around in the back of his truck. Instead he was a soft spoken, slender fellow, with a neat suit and tie to match"
If some posh British asshat said that it'd be just as annoying and ignorant.
2006 called, they want their "I swear I don't hate them I just hate their culture and everything else about them" bullshit back.
Making that stereotypical assumption about a random American from the deep south is one thing, but you would never make that assumption if you were going to meet a government representative from Alabama
The same should be true of a government official from a Middle Eastern nation. There should never be a reason to assume he'd come out with a mouth "bulging with khat", a dagger at his hip, and "tribal swagger". This would be like assuming you'd meet a German politician and being surprised that they didn't show up in Lederhosen and yodeling while holding a beer in either hand
(That's not even to say that the Alabama stereotype you mention, while being often associated with whites in the US, is not necessarily exclusively white - whereas the Yemeni stereotype presented by the article is absolutely dripping in Othering language meant to be racialized)
It's kind of a one-two punch since they may have confused the group with the actual Houthi tribe they're named after? Anyway, "race" can encompass cultures too when they are significant enough, i mean, plenty of European states get racist at each other when they're practically the same genetics
Clarification for future readers. They call themselves Ansar Allah, and 'Houthis' is western media derogatorily depopularising and demotivating the movement as Hussein al-Houthi's principle-less lackeys.
Western media consistently do this with all their opponents, finding a phrase that if you're unfamiliar is equivalent to how they wish to be known and addressed, but is offensive and antithetical to some part of their identity so that media friendly to them would never use it and thus never overlap as a source of knowledge to western readers.
cant unlearn that which no longer exists.
Everyone who isn't a brain melted cracker stands across that chasm.
In response to the title, I'm a POC and even I haven't unlearned (my own internalized) racism sadly. I hope I can achieve it.
In response to the actual image, this is the most American thing I've ever read.
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