Curious what people's thoughts on Liberia are.
It was founded by freed slaves, but there must have been people there. Was there the same kind of contradiction that we see in Palestine with the Israeli colonizers? Or in the US/Canada with Indigenous? Or was it peaceful
I would say no after the second Liberian civil war and the longstanding Americo-Liberian minority rule was ended but it did start as a colonial state. The Americo-Liberian's who were descended from freed African-American and African-Caribbean slaves subjugated and enslaved the native people in Liberia almost the second they landed and their ethnic group were at the top of hierarchy.
It's a bit of a stretch to call it a state thqh
>>2677856Wow they enslaved the native Africans?
Why does this always happen.
Just the Israelis genociding Gaza and carrying out pogroms in West Bank.
It's like the oppressed groups look at their oppressor as a handy guide to running a state rather than what to avoid.
>>2677927I think since the Americo Liberians controlled the state they would pay off native group chiefs to provide them with people to become laborers so they could buy loyalty from a local elite and they would profit from slave labor which was largely used on rubber plantations.
Liberia's constitution is the exact same as America's
and so they rape babies in Liberia to this day thinking it cures aids
>>2678251Also the same nation which pardoned General Buttnaked the cannibal warlord who raped children and had an army of child soldiers and he is now considered a priest.
The crazy part is that theres thousands like him in Liberia but they don't get the coverage, not the fact that he has been pardoned, some similar war criminals are in government.
TL;DR there is nothing good about Liberia. It is argueably worse than India. I think its even worse than Burundi which despite being considered the poorest nation on earth is still relatively peaceful compared to Liberia and generally Burundi has a lot more potential for growth than Liberia does.
Potentially thermo-nuclear level take with contentious fall-out, but here we go:
Liberia demonstrates that an American colony, even if founded by an oppressed and marginalised part of American society, would end up even more fucked up than almost everything England, France, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy left in their wake. And that's a demonic accomplishment if there is one.
Liberia is like a thousand LRA's crammed into one territory… with spillover.
As for those who don't know what the Lord's Resistance Army is, its a christian terrorist organization that kidnaps children, rapes them and uses child soldiers to try to establish a theocracy among other things. That by itself is insane but in Liberia such warlords and armies are common.
>>2678276I remember a big stink in the early 2010s about this Kony guy and everything in the west was clamoring to capture him. Is he the leader of the LRA?
>>2678286He's one of the leaders, he's still alive, even Wagner have been trying to capture him and have fought against the LRA
>>2678313Laying off the cocaine might have helped.
>>2677853liberia is the resulting state of things when the US cares about minorities emancipation.
I am dead serious. whatever liberia problems are, they are the results of the US trying to be 'good'.
>>2679001It literally was never about emancipation, it was essentially repatriation done by “moderates” (racists) in the ACS that was opposed by freedmen and abolitionists at the time.
>>2678259Liberia is so fucked up that they can't even begin thinking about communism, first they need to stop being one of the worst places on earth. Honestly another state needs to conquer Liberia, put all the war criminals on trial, and put everyone else in re-education camps before they can even start being functional.
>>2678269Jesus that looks like an "arm yourself leftists" page on tumblr
>>2678144why is the audio like that
>>2677927i mean it makes sense
>atrocity happens to group>group in subsequent times collectively develops "I have to do this first or it will happen to us again" mindset Liberia is a yank house negro state.
>>2695852A very US influenced state is what it is.
>>2679329This but the us tbh
It was, not anymore.
Also the first president Liberia had who wasn't a warlord of Americo-Liberean slaveowner, was a literal banker who worked for the world bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf>>2677853It started of as a settler colonial state, not sure what's going on now
>>2696338Americo liberians have more or less stopped existing and have intermarried with natives since the end of the True Whig party
>>2678269Those pics are from 30 years ago when there was a civil war though. Like it's a third-world country, one of the poorest in the world, but seems like people's points of reference are out of date.
>>2678253vice's coverage was way hardcore
>>2677927It's purely material conditions, black people or Jews aren't inherently more moral then Europeans were, they simply happened to be the oppressed ones, give them the same material domination as Europeans had, and they'll do the same.
>>2677927Why would amerikkkans not behave like the klu klux klan animals that they are?
>>2678269>>2678269Pics are oozing of Amerikkkanism
Lumpen-hooligan culture
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