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what do you think about the book settlers j Sakai?
Overrated and lowkey the only theory a lot of leftslopers read. Just start with marx or even lenin ffs.
Never read it, but I can definitely recommend An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
ETA: it's really good at laying out how systematic and deliberately cruel the settlers were.
Yes, that book in particular is great!
It was a good book, but I was disappointed when I read it.
FYI, I wanted to read it since around 2008. I remember looking on Amazon books pages for books to read about history and I saw that book and the blurb entranced me and lighted a fury in me (in a good way) I had always had about white people in general.
However, when I read it for the first time (years later), I was disappointed because it was stuff that I knew about, stuff that even the teachers in my high school and college talked about, and the conclusion of the book was stuff I had already seen or read about before.
Tbf though, the book was written in 1979 and published around 1982, afaik, so it was probably a big deal for those that grew up with it.
I love how MAGA coms and ACP folks hate it though lol
At the end of the day, it is just one book out of many and you can find plenty that discusses the subject matter in more detail and more angles nowadays; i kinda just see it as a litmus test to check if someone is an ACP dumbass or not, idk lol
but yeah, I hated white people growing up
looking back, i disagree with the book more now because the organizations it criticized are ones that I now respect a lot more now, given what I know now, especially since I was on the inside
but eh, it's a good introduction to big subject matter for some people, if nothing else; not everyone knows the subject and not every high school or college professor will always go into, say, the war in the Philippines during the turn into the twentieth century.
tl;dr I liked it and it was good, just kinda overrated lol