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RE: masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913…
Spain is in Ceuta because it was part of Al-Andalus. after 1492 it became NOT a migration point but an EXPULSION point.
#Morocco has been complicit with #Spain since the days of the Hapsburgs. they helped La Corona in #deportations of spanish moros, sefaradís and even iberian ethnic groups like basque, gallegos, catalanes.
#Marruecos is to #España what El Salvador is today to #Trump and #MAGA #Project2025.
Spain’s first sugar plantations were worked by moro & sefaradí slaves in Morocco.
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I'm learning that Spain has a colony in North Africa, and wondering why the mid 20th century decolonial struggles missed that one.
RE: dair-community.social/@trochee…
❝ when Europeans say "we're not racist like Americans" ❞
exactly as you say: they imply since they technically didn't have #chattle #slavery on their EU lands (at least on the scale USA had it), they can’t be that kind of racist.
but they did have slavery: first in their #MENA outposts, then in the lands they stole in the Américas.
#Ceuta and #Morocco need to be seen as, not just metaphors for migration from Africa to Europe. they represent Europe’s first enclaves of OFF-SHORE SLAVERY.
Jeremy Kahn (@trochee@dair-community.social)
@blogdiva@mastodon.social I think that the US relationship to race and immigration is the unholy synthesis of chattel slavery (via the British-dominated triangle trade) and La Conquista peonage, which is the outgrowth of Euro colonial adventures in…Distributed AI Research Community
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/11702…
the #MAGA #gringolarchy are actively sabotaging PM Pedro Sáchez of #Spain
when i read the #Ceuta crisis was incited on social media, it’s clear it was a #psyops, not just thru #Xitter, but most likely TikTokUSA.
who is to say the #MAGA controlled #TikTokUSA isn't being used to swap out the Chinese owned one in places like #Morocco? who is to say TikTokUSA is not paying #Google and #Apple swap the apps in regions like #MENA?
after all, USA won't regulate nor audit #techbros social media.
Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Why did 60,000 migrants suddenly breach the Spanish border at the Spanish exclave of Ceuta? Here is an interesting clue: — On July 15, the US House Republicans passed a national security bill (1).Randahl Fink (Mastodon)
