your favorite white liberal is talking about "how things are in the US" with ZERO words about how things are in The Netherlands?! the country where local fascists self deputize to stop anti racism protesters from exercising the right to free speech? and the police assists them?!

I don't care that a mediocre white man with ZERO contributions to the history of thought is popular. it's the way things have always been. But I do care about intellectual dishonesty and the shameless peddling of white innocence.

anyone claiming how "things are different in the US" should be made to read this history of Dutch policing and its roots in colonial administration: Dutch Colonial Police by Marieke Bloembergen and Ellen Klinkers (page 1201 and forward) https://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-5690-2_464

I use this text in my theory seminars where we discuss the genealogy of modern police practices. the seeds of the anti Blackness that pervades Dutch police were planted at that foundational moment