[tenfourwookie]

He means the slow, grinding processes that virtually eliminated all natives in the Americas, stealing their lands and lives with phony treaties, disease, and war, leading to a most ridiculous zeitgeist know as Manifest Destiny, wherein we whitewashed colonial genocide of the highest order over generations in the name of freedom, established a country built on slave labor, and then allowed industry and military to establish a virtual high priest sect know as modern finance. With the high priests now failing us every few years, seemingly worse each time, and pestilence all around us, the drama continues to unfold. I think he means something like that, synthesis culture being euphemistic. I suppose that has a nicer ring to it than assimilation.

I bought this fiddle from some dude on eBay call Nero. Shall we play?

[AnimalMuppet]

Bull. That's not what he meant, and I think you know it. You just saw a chance to grind your axe.

There is nothing in your rant that looks remotely like a "synthesis culture", and a bunch of it happens after Adam Smith. So, while it's a semi-decent rant (you missed sexism and oppression of LGBTQ+), it doesn't answer my question at all, despite pretending to.

[tenfourwookie]

You're the one asking what he meant. Odd that you seem to be so sure when you yourself aren't sure at all.

That was mostly Chomsky on quick summary, but you wouldn't be the first to malign him. Being right, he wouldn't care.

[AnimalMuppet]

I'm not sure what he meant, but yes, I'm pretty sure what you said wasn't it. What's more, I'm pretty sure you know it.

[tenfourwookie]

I just need a jelly donut. A lemon one. I think my blood sugar is low.

[tboyd47]

:D

[tboyd47]

No. The racism came after what I’m talking about from a different population of whites.

Despite driving a devastating genocide of native peoples, it failed to wipe away the Indian influence completely from American and world culture, which we trace back to Squanto’s collaboration with the Pilgrims to found the Plymouth colony.