• Kaffe@lemmygrad.ml
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    This is clearly the words of someone who has no community or culture to cling to, one born nation-less and with a position to lose. For me contributing to my community in what’s necessary of me benefits everyone and all children. For colonized peoples there is a collective worth protecting as it protects ourselves as individuals.

    It’s honestly sounding like you have internalized individualism. Like I said it’s fine to not want children and to not have them, but know that people having children is necessary for your survival, and you have a role to play in the survival of their children.

    Everyone has a role to play as we are social beings. Our society as structured alienates us from the benefits of socialized production but these conditions are definite and mutable. Have some revolutionary optimism.

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        I’ve written in my comments that my people are colonized and subject to genocide, I’m not a white settler, I’m Black. I understand the outlook that settlers have a false nation unworthy of upholding, I agree, but I do not think they need to be stripped of living their lives as human beings in the manner they choose as long as it fits the framework of Decolonization.

        I comment on my predictions and expectations of settlers a lot, this time I’m on the optimistic side that we’d hope for more settlers to be deeply concerned about the future generations. It’s fucked up for settlers to come here, trash the place, and when it comes time to clean up they’d rather die out than join the multi generational effort to fix this place. We don’t plan for their help but it would be a quicker process with more hands. 🤷🏽‍♀️

        Decolonization also means restoring the humanity of the colonizers.

        Albeit not peacefully 😏

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      It’s honestly sounding like you have internalized individualism. Like I said it’s fine to not want children and to not have them, but know that people having children is necessary for your survival, and you have a role to play in the survival of their children.

      if other people putting children in harm’s way is necessary for my survival then i would prefer not to survive and for the cycle of suffering to end with me. there’s no social unit worth damning generations of children to lifetimes of suffering and bitter struggle.

      Have some revolutionary optimism.

      fight now and maybe having a kid later won’t be equivalent to putting them through hell, but in the meantime we have no moral standing for conscription.