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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 17h

I’m not American or in America.
I guess I’ve said all I had to say at this point - I hope you will reconsider!

Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 23h

I think you’re saying that there’s a newer American meaning of “racism“ that has become more widespread recently that you dislike as it isn’t applicable to the rest of the world. You also seem to want to reduce racism to prejudice & make room for the idea that white people can experience racism.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sure how you have come to that conclusion. The origins of racism were Anglo-American/ European at at time when Britain ruled half the world & other European counties had extensive colonial dominions. these nations have had a huge impact worldwide in all kinds of ways due to colonialism.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

*4 billion people

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

That’s your perogative I guess. As I grow older, I have realised that a lot of what I was taught or took for granted as a kid was just not true, and it was also a long time ago. There were literally billion people born since I was for whom some of these things that seem right to me were never true!

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it’s inconsistent- the experience of the Irish shows clearly how ideas of race were invented and used to wield colonial power, and how the definition of whiteness has changed over time to suit those in power. I agree race in America is not the whole story though.

Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

To me defining racism as the same as prejudice erases the recent and murderous history of racism, which is important to understand as it continues to shape our world for the worse.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, not everywhere! You are right there‘s 2 main meanings and they are in tension. That comes through in this entry where the 2 meanings keep coming up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#....

I’d say that the US use, while different to what I learned growing up, reflects history better.

Racism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

Yes but that definition ignores the actual history of the term?

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

Noting that this is precisely why the far right are trying to spread their “Great Replacement” theory - it’s a claim that systematic white oppression exists, which in their minds would justify the idea that they experience racism from non-white people.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

When you put it in its context then it is fair to say that white people don’t experience racism. That’s not to say they don’t experience ignorance, prejudice, stereotyping, oppression etc. But who espouses a doctrine that white people are inherently an inferior race?

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

So my take is that prejudice and conflict are certainly universal, but racism - despite what I was taught growing up, which was that it was a form of ignorance or prejudice - is actually a more specific and modern belief system or doctrine. This is its original meaning, not a new one.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that American discussions on this seem very insular - as if the rest of the world didn’t exist.

But I also think we’ve all been brought up to think racism is universal and almost natural whereas the historical record shows a very different story.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

And then, toward the end, how these bogus concepts of race were exported to other parts of the world.

It is a bit long sorry!

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

From the section on the Enlightment on it is very useful on how Europeans invented new pseudo-scientific concepts of race and racism to justify colonialism and slavery. Prejudice may be as old as humankind, but racism is very modern.

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 1d

I get where you're coming from, but actually that isn't what our history shows. I'd recommend giving this a read and see what you think: www.britannica.com/topic/race-h...

Race - History, Ideology, Science | Britannica

Race - History, Ideology, Science: Race as a categorizing term referring to human beings was first used in the English language in the late 16th century. Until the 18th century it had a generalized me...

www.britannica.com

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Space Is The Place Radio Show @spaceitpradio.bsky.social · 4d

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Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social · 7d

Well, it took longer than many of us expected, but in the end it happened. Let's try and not turn the horror in Manchester into an opportunity to advance any and every agenda.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris

I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 6d

Coming up soon now, our next release!

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will sōderberg... @uforika.bsky.social · Aug 23

presale for my guest full-length release on machine records... more than two decades after us exchanging tracks on compilations circa 2oo3...

full album coming on 17 october, everywhere... preview track available, presales are open...

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let the machines sing... [2] of desire to salvage, by will sōderberg...

6 track album

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 6d

Missed this! Thanks @elizabethjelly.bsky.social for playing a track from our upcoming Beckton Alps 2 release!

CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · Aug 31

Listen again: Electrojunkyard / 30th August 2025

Playing tracks by Beckton Alps2, Morgan Szymanski / Tommy Perman, alka, Rupert Lally, Moray Newlands and more.

@elizabethjelly.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/elec...

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · Aug 31

Listen again: Electrojunkyard / 30th August 2025

Playing tracks by Beckton Alps2, Morgan Szymanski / Tommy Perman, alka, Rupert Lally, Moray Newlands and more.

@elizabethjelly.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/elec...

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · Aug 14

In November, we’re bringing you another highly experimental electronic release from a Canadian-born musician, Joel Shea aka Beckton Alps2. #electronic #music #noise

Listen and pre-order now, only on Bandcamp!

@becktonalps2.bsky.social
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Side, by Beckton Alps2

5 track album

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Machine Records 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🏳️‍🌈❤️☮️🎛️🎧 @machine-records.bsky.social · 6d

Great t-shirt 🙂

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will sōderberg... @uforika.bsky.social · 6d

for bandcamp frdayidayidayidayidayidayidayiday...

will sōderberg... @uforika.bsky.social · Aug 23

presale for my guest full-length release on machine records... more than two decades after us exchanging tracks on compilations circa 2oo3...

full album coming on 17 october, everywhere... preview track available, presales are open...

machinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/let-th...

let the machines sing... [2] of desire to salvage, by will sōderberg...

6 track album

machinerecords.bandcamp.com

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