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The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said.

In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone.

The total number of those affected by the procedures, thought to have continued for decades, is understood to be far higher. Victims and their lawyers say generations of Inuit women were left traumatised and suffering reproductive complications, including infertility, as a result of the Danish state’s policy.

Earlier this month, a group of 143 women sued the Danish state over the alleged violations, but they have yet to receive a response from the government, despite the Danish prime minister visiting Greenland – now an autonomous territory of Denmark – soon after.

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[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Your point fails to recognize that the US isn't the only country in the world. 'black' as a concept makes no sense on the global scale either and the internet does exist in other countries too.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

European empires colonised the world centuries ago and invented the concept of race to justify why they were treating everyone else as sub-human. Britain exported that ideology to the US, and both of their empires, amongst many others, exported the concept globally. No continent on Earth was spared. I live in Australia and the Indigenous people here talk about "black fellas" and "white fellas" to describe their particular experience of racist oppression.

To claim "black" as a racist concept only exists in the US just proves that you don't know very much about the topic.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As if european countries were the only others-invading empires. Spain was a colony of some muslim caliphate for centuries and the ottomen once made it all the way to the gates of vienna. And I didn't say black only exists in the US, I said it doesn't make sense outside of it. Your australia-natives anecdote onls slightly changes thats

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

...and? We're talking about the roots of racism, not which empire was worse. The most recent imperial expansions were global and done by white people, which is why colourism works the way it does, globally. If some other group had done it, it might be different, but they didn't, and it isn't.

This is such a basic point, did you think you could actually distract me from it by talking about the Ottomans or whatever?