• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    Also, ‘Negro’ isn’t the N word. Capital N Negro was the preferred term for decades, up until the Malcolm X era.

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    Context: During the Haitian Revolution, France hired Polish mercenaries to go to Haiti and help with putting the slave rebellion down. After arriving, the Polish mercenaries immediately recognized they had much more in common with the other people being oppressed by major European powers and joined the revolution on the Haitians’ side. After the revolution and because of some of the most severe international sanctions in world history (many of which are still in effect to this day), the Polish mercenaries were now completely Haitian and were legally declared “black” by the new Haitian government.

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      He also forced his people to go back to work in the plantations or in the army under pain of death. The Poles got real lucky that they got classified as honorary blacks, too, because he ordered a genocide of all white people.

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        The country kept its slaves and the country was involved in a genocide of its native population, basically almost like Washington and America.😊

        That and it depends on your belief if he’s justified for the genocide or not as a nice case of… what did that clown say? Ah, yes: “You get what you fucking deserve!”

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          Does that justify murdering almost every single Frenchman and Frenchwoman?

          He did not care if they owned slaves or not. He did not care what their opinion on Tainos was. He killed them all.

          Off-topic, but the residents of Hispaniola did a whole lot more than you folks up North. You still have natives. We don’t.

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    Ah, so that’s where the Lemmy dev’s screen name comes from. Neat.

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      Politics and culture have more weight than pure geography. Haiti is better described as part of the Caribbean, which like the Pacific Islands, is almost it’s own thing. Geographically, it’s more North than South American, but that distinction isn’t useful for understanding it. The Americas can be broken down into the zones of Central, North, South, and the Caribbean. Culturally, it can best be divided in two as English America and Latin America. The traditional North vs South line betrays how the US and Canada relate to every other American country.

      I wish we legally recognized overlap with our geographic categorization. Eastern Europe overlaps with both Europe and Asia. North and South America overlap in Central America and the Caribbean. The Middle East overlaps with Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. Regions really aren’t exclusive.

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      Napoleon sent polish troops to fight a slave rebellion, poles declared they were supposed to fight for freedom not against it and changed sides.