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kn11ves · 1 year ago

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first page of winnetou: every living thing deserves life aaand native people deserve to not die of and they are equal to white people aand they deserve patience and time to themselves and to governheemselves anddd leave em alone they dont did nothing we're judging them with out western white morals

german news: faaarking racist burn da books

#im still in awe german news would say people r crying winnetou is racist are we talking about the dame book where karl may literally in the #1880's says white people put extreme expectations to first nations and then get mad at them when they arent up to western standards and #that they didnt ever get a chance to fucking breathe? that it wasnt granted to us because white people Destroyed Everything #of course i think theres some underlying thing with like well even if we never reached the equivalent of western development as people see #it we. we still are developed n rich we're not in the past. but karl seems to have a huge respect for our culture #maybe its just the translator fucking up what hes saying it just gave me an ick that it almost seems like its trying to say white western #society is the Eventual Reaching Point that natives Would havw gotten to had we had gotten the time and space which i dont agree wjth bc i #dont particularly think that industrialisation was. a good thing. hard to explain but well i dont think our societies should have had to #have reached white levels to be considered equally as important and advanced but translated book + 1880's german white guy + hes doing #great so far no real problems im sure he absolutely would have respected the view point that our cultures are just as advanced

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