Memes of Production

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Very few would have been written by the german government, though.

Again, no, I do not think that Diamond Jenness was necessarily themselves racist - I do think that what they were writing about were cultures actively being genocided by the institution they were working for, at a time period where native people were barely considered human, and the perspective they present will be necessarily colored by that.