Stephanie Waters Paolini is based and intelligent
I agree with and support everything that Stephanie Waters said in this video (though according to Afro Pessimism, antiracist scholars have misconstrued the enemy as white supremacy. A true anti-racist critique should go deeper and engage the legacy of modernity itself.
Like how modernity defined human subjectivity through its constitutive exclusion of black people--(understood and ontologized as slaves).
Though slavery existed at several historical periods and in different geographical locations, the paradigmatic slave for Europeans came to be identified exclusively with blacks.
The Middle Passage ontologically changed African lives in a way that even exceeded the existential imprints left by the Shoah: Jews went into Auschwitz and came out as Jews, Africans went into the ships and came out as Blacks. The latter is a Human and a metaphysical holo caust.
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