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Hereditary monarchy shares a core premise with racism- that some people are innately better and more important based on "blood". And it is a very small step from "This family of white British people have superior blood" to "White British people have superior blood".
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For me this all goes back to precious Archie. Yes, Harry was allowed to marry Meghan because the royals saw no genetic future between them. Then Bam! Archie! They never saw that coming and the existence of that beautiful little boy blew their tiny brains to smithereens. Chumps!
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Anton Brakhage
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This lies at the root, I am sure, of much of the ferocious hatred for Harry, Meghan, and their family. Because the realization that their "royal blood", their "superior" blood, is no longer all-white shatters a great many peoples' worldview on a fundamental level.
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It's the same existential terror as in the US after Obama's election, and at the prospect of Hillary Clinton or Harris's election- the dread of someone they see as innately inferior being placed above them. But in Britain, with its aristocracy going back millennia, it is even more deeply-rooted.
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And it comes back to that basic, vile belief- that some people have "superior" blood.

The Royal Family is innately racist. It is not merely the character of individual royals, or even that it's wealth is built on racial oppression. It is conceptually racist. And it can never be anything else.
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The very concept of the Left in politics was born in opposition to the monarchy and aristocracy. We have rightly expanded our horizons to other issues, and modernized our methods. But perhaps it's time to remember our origins, and put that old devil to rest once and for all.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
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