The readings ,much like the prior weeks didn't dwelve into anything too shocking, that within itself is kind of horrifying. Something I did extract as an underlying issue for the independence movements in L/A was a form of ancestral/ethnic (ethnic for a lack of better term) erasure. The role this played in the undermining of citizens from uniting with people of similar ancestral colonial relations and erasing all issues that didn't effect the ruling classes in a negative way. This similarly parallels the erasure of current issues facing the Black Lives Matter Movement, wherein people erase issues of marginalization and violence by "not seeing colour", or stating that these people are "all just Americans", like what was said in this weeks readings where the Peruvian government was recalled saying such things as there's no such things as "Indians", that everyone is now just Peruvian. These types of "micro"-violences erase the reality of those in marginalized groups/communities by denying identity to these groups and enforcing horizontal or internalized racism. Internalized and horizontal violences can work their way into these communities/peoples and reinforce already present doubt and/or self hatred. This has never been okay and as the interference of people obtaining their rights has always been (later) deemed as unlawful and unethical, so must be deemed the process of erasure.
These actions have and will always be just an attempt to stop progress of marginalized communities in either establishing or obtaining their literal human rights, fortunately, these actions while generally win battles, do not win wars of equality.
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