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[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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The Outside Agitator Trope in the Haiti Revolution

The outside agitator trope is rooted in this paternalistic condescending deeply patronizing approach that black people themselves aren't capable of doing these sorts of uprisings. In the south I forget which mayor or governor white supremacist mayor governor said this but they actually played a clip that I heard of them asking you know this what about these outside agitators. It's the same exact escape goading it's thesame exact intrinsic racism that implicitly says that black people by their own accords aren't able to fight back so it must be some other group. There's also ties with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people and redbaiting anti-communism, all comes together in this

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