Spain is in Ceuta because it was part of Al-Andalus.
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Fascinating thread! Seems that among the implications are 1) capitalism has always been racial capitalism; 2) there's no capitalism that isn't racial. E.g. the Trumpist murder of DEI is just the righting of an errant neoliberal drift❝ racial capitalism ❞ isn't a thing. using biological reasons to oppress a group of people is an unfortunate human trait; that the motley crew we call Europe seem to be really good at.
the thing is: Europe as an identity literally sprang from one of the earliest war chronicles written in Spain, describing a battle won by a Franco-Iberian coalition against an Al-Andalus headquartered in Africa.
European, as an identity, exists as the opposite of Africa, Middle East and Islam.
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the fall of Granada in 1492 is a real fetish among a subset of christofascist neonazi gringos.
when i got my hands on #Project2025 and saw the section on deportations, it was very obvious to me Trump’s #MAGA handlers are following the messy and totally unplanned expulsiones of La Corona’s playbook.
basically, every time the crown and nobility needed cash, a new wave of pogroms and expulsiones of moros & sefaradís would happen.
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@blogdiva nodding along, especially to this one.
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Every fascist war is funded by the theft of other's wealth.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/31/bank-of-england-and-nazis-stolen-goldThe financial sector has money laundered that looting & pillaging for decades.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html
It's one reason why the young cannot afford a home. Banks helped launder billions of foreign stolen cash via the residential housing markets of the G7.
https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united-states/washington-dc-real-estate-news/2026-aml-rules-in-real-estate-blocktitle-financial-crimes-enforcement-network-impact-on-real-estate-michael-gerity-fincen-residential-real-estate-rule-14689.phphttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/12/undocumented-workers-home-prices-00183126
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913427870
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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@blogdiva para hablar sin saber, mejor se calla usted, compañera.
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Every fascist war is funded by the theft of other's wealth.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/31/bank-of-england-and-nazis-stolen-goldThe financial sector has money laundered that looting & pillaging for decades.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html
It's one reason why the young cannot afford a home. Banks helped launder billions of foreign stolen cash via the residential housing markets of the G7.
https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united-states/washington-dc-real-estate-news/2026-aml-rules-in-real-estate-blocktitle-financial-crimes-enforcement-network-impact-on-real-estate-michael-gerity-fincen-residential-real-estate-rule-14689.phphttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/12/undocumented-workers-home-prices-00183126
@Npars01 @browngraham243 @blogdiva
And murdering for resourses.
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❝ racial capitalism ❞ isn't a thing. using biological reasons to oppress a group of people is an unfortunate human trait; that the motley crew we call Europe seem to be really good at.
the thing is: Europe as an identity literally sprang from one of the earliest war chronicles written in Spain, describing a battle won by a Franco-Iberian coalition against an Al-Andalus headquartered in Africa.
European, as an identity, exists as the opposite of Africa, Middle East and Islam.
@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
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@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
@dnkboston @blogdiva @ophiocephalic Henri Pirenne said the same thing, that after the Roman empire collapsed all the Mediterranean trade routes remained, the European hinterland only became important after christians lost the southern shore
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@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
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@blogdiva The Habsburgs, of course, also being among the most notoriously inbred families in history, making a mockery of myths about "pure blood".
As posh Brits would say as they clink their champagne glasses together..."chin chin"!
@ApostateEnglishman @blogdiva Es heisst HABSBURG, verdammt noch mal. Haben sie euch kein "B" mit hinübergeschickt in die Kolonien?
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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 (North) Africa
And when Europeans say "we're not racist like Americans" they usually are focused on *one* of those two but are willfully blind to the other
French liberals overlook their history in Algiers; Belgians overlook Congo; Italians Ethiopia
I think the US traded class stratification for extra race stratification, too.
One can see, in literature and memoir to about mayyyybe 1830 in England, the possibility of an international race-blind aristocratic system instead of what we got. I think the UK and German middle-working classes were just strong enough to prevent it.
Surely this has a proper name to historians, perhaps as the something fallacy?
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but as there were less and less moros and sefaradís to be had, ethnic minorities like basques, catalanes, gallegos would end up in those sweeps.
in SUGAR: A BITTERSWEET HISTORY, Elizabeth Abbot centers the development of the sugar industry on these waves of expulsiones from Spain.
the first mass scale sugar plantations were developed by Spain in Morocco with the enslaved expulsados who had no means to “go back to where they came from” in the Middle East 🧵…
@blogdiva let me to make some corrections if youn do not mind. The word is sefardí, in English Sephardic, not sefaradies. Gallegans, vascs and catalonias are not ethnic groups but people with different languages related to other kingdoms in the peninsula. Moriscos were people with Arab cultural background. It means they write or even talk Arab but not necessary muslims. In fact they had to convert critianism since 1492. Moro was a despective way for Islamic.
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YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
@blogdiva There is so much there that is applicable to our modern moment. It's going to take a couple of days to unpack it.
Always gets at the question that is at the rotten heart of capitalism with a capital
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@blogdiva para hablar sin saber, mejor se calla usted, compañera.
@blogdiva vale, me dejé llevar por malos sentimientos, mis disculpas. Mas en lo que dices hay mucho de erróneo. Suficiente nos odian ya los gringos como para echar más gasolina al fuego.
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913427870
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.
🧵…
@blogdiva Help us
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@blogdiva let me to make some corrections if youn do not mind. The word is sefardí, in English Sephardic, not sefaradies. Gallegans, vascs and catalonias are not ethnic groups but people with different languages related to other kingdoms in the peninsula. Moriscos were people with Arab cultural background. It means they write or even talk Arab but not necessary muslims. In fact they had to convert critianism since 1492. Moro was a despective way for Islamic.
@blogdiva catalonians were not prosecuted because they subdits of the crown of Aragon. I that time they were expanding by Sicilia and south of Italy. The Crown of Castilian try to expand in the north of Africa. They were success in Ceuta, Melilla and Ranger but Morocco was fully independent. Any way, the sugar cane industry is hard to believe was developed in Morroco in the Xv century. Maybe the following century In South america.
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recently came across academic research on the last pogrom and expulsiones of Jews in Spain. it happened in 1898 in Galicia.
this is HIGHLY significant for a few reasons:
1. 1898 is the year of the Spanish American War
2. it is known the gringolarchy were doing everything in their power to destabilize #Spain and invade #Cuba and #PuertoRico
3. #ManifestDestiny is tied to the hip of Sarmiento’s theory of #blanquemiento, which is #eugenics by #immigration
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@blogdiva As far as I know there were no Jews in Spain after 1492. I have no clue about prosecutions of Jewish in Galicia in 1898. In that time, there were a massive immigration to south america in the same way as the Irish did (Fidel Castro's grandfather was gallegans). Related to Jewish prosecution in Galicia, refer me your sources, please. Therefore I can learn more about my own History.
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if we look at Spain’s waves of expulsiones (aka deportations) and their use of eminent domain to take over the lands and properties of the deported, it’s clear they had expanded the definition of LIMPIA DE SANGRE and “one-drop rule” not for pedestrian racist reasons but because it was a quick way to make money.
so even though LA LIMPIA didn't have in #Spain the same white supremacist connotations that #blanqueamiento had in #Argentina and #OneDropRule in the United States 🧵…
@blogdiva hummm, not exactly. In the Middle Age, península were divided in diferent kingdoms with many diferent languages and cultures in the territory. Expulsions a represions againts local aristocracy were a way to standarized the population in order made easier to rule in unified crown of Castillia and Aragon by the end of XV century. This made the basis of the spanish national cristianism during the Franco dictatorship.
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913427870
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 always thought it was quite *amusing* when various Spanish governments got the he hump over Gibraltar when they had the same deal going in in North Africa
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@AccordionBruce @blogdiva Housing and loans depend upon FICO scores. People won't go on strike or protest if it ruins their ability to obtain a place to live or own a car. FICO scores are the tool of financial oppression and control. However, if the housing prices and student loan totals get so out of hand that the the FICO system is destroyed and people can't rent or buy anything, then the proverbial shite will hit the fan, because then there is nothing to lose.
