Comment by krapp
3 hours ago
The trick is to live in a white supremacist imperialist culture that barely considers such people human to begin with and couldn't care less about their traditions beyond the material value they create.
3 hours ago
The trick is to live in a white supremacist imperialist culture that barely considers such people human to begin with and couldn't care less about their traditions beyond the material value they create.
The trick is to find non-white people so indifferent to their traditions and culture* that they’ll sell it to white supremacists for material gain.
*Also did 19th century Muslim Egyptians really consider mummies part of “their” culture? Or is the idea of “Egypt” also a White imperialist imposition?
We're specifically talking about the British Empire and its attitude towards colonized people and cultures. I'm sure that Muslim Egyptians had their own prejudice, but Muslim Egyptian prejudice didn't inform British people's alienation and dehumanization of non-white cultures whereas white supremacy did. They didn't use mummies for firewood, to garnish their soup or grind them into paint because Egyptian Muslims considered them pagans or whatever.
I don't know why you're being so defensive, this is just history.