Yeah, that’s definitely an exception, though those depictions were often directly inspired by European artistic depictions. In Protestant Africa, the story is quite different.

“Black Jesus” is a deliberate response to the traditional white depiction of Jesus, arising out of an acrimonious colonial relationship with whites. We’re trying to discuss why Jesus was depicted as white in the first place.

You’re basically arguing that this process had nothing to do with capitalism. Like Apple isn’t capitalist, it’s just workers working. Like what is the logic here. Those workers didn’t do it to create the iPhone… they did it because the capitalist who wanted to create the iPhone was paying them. So that his privately owned firm could compete against other similar firms in the market.

Uh… the most recent history involves Turkey using US-sold jets to bomb Kurds in northern Syria.

So long as the Israeli bot networks stay off of here. I don’t like how China is discussed here but it’s a function of the type of people this place attracts, i.e not fans of authority.

File under “It’s Okay When Israel Does It: Entry #6367821 (October 2024)”

Well… a country without “elites” and only farmers will very quickly find itself with a set of elites, from another country, who can organize their farmers to take and conquer others’ farmland.

Which country is that?

Great question. See, a farmer can’t stay behind and command the state because he is a farmer. The heads of state and the elite cannot all perish in trenches because then all that would remain are farmers. Established heirarchy for organizational power was invented probably by whatever primates we evolved from, and is observed among even some other species of primate.

It’s called the division of labor. You can’t have the guy in charge of running things get turned into Beefaroni in a foxhole.