The US, and it’s complicated because on both sides of my family tree there are native women that were raped by settlers. I have white skin (11 months of the year) and have no connection to any tribes so I’d consider myself a settler, but the debt doesn’t come from the crimes of long-dead settlers that came here to steal the land and rape women and kidnap children. I’m not to blame for the sins of my forefathers.
My debt comes from the privileges I’ve experienced my entire life from my light skin and my ability to stealthily conform to white hegemony and from the generational wealth I benefited from throughout my life and from participating in this neocolonial system.
Generational wealth is real. White privilege is real. If you’re a settler and you want to be a leftist, you have to grapple with this shit.
So you’re not one of the white people that think indigenous people would be in the moral right to go around killing you, right? Because a lot of leftists have adopted that absolute batshit position for some reason, which is frankly both kind of racist, and also ignores what indigenous people want…
The best context I can give you without memory or without sources is that it is all Twitter leftism, the best kind of leftism. I don’t expect you to take a particular side in something I’m just relaying to you, I just wanted to make sure you weren’t one of those types.
TwitterX.com isn’t real life. People tend to take extreme positions because that’s what creates engagement and because they can only express themselves through text (and because it’s fun.)
Like, I’ll vibe with Tweets Xits about “unlimited genocide on the first world!” but I don’t take that shit seriously. Until they actually do anything I don’t believe a word of it.
What country are you a settler in, and how deep in debt are you to the people you settled
Because this is batshit insane
The US, and it’s complicated because on both sides of my family tree there are native women that were raped by settlers. I have white skin (11 months of the year) and have no connection to any tribes so I’d consider myself a settler, but the debt doesn’t come from the crimes of long-dead settlers that came here to steal the land and rape women and kidnap children. I’m not to blame for the sins of my forefathers.
My debt comes from the privileges I’ve experienced my entire life from my light skin and my ability to stealthily conform to white hegemony and from the generational wealth I benefited from throughout my life and from participating in this neocolonial system.
Generational wealth is real. White privilege is real. If you’re a settler and you want to be a leftist, you have to grapple with this shit.
So you’re not one of the white people that think indigenous people would be in the moral right to go around killing you, right? Because a lot of leftists have adopted that absolute batshit position for some reason, which is frankly both kind of racist, and also ignores what indigenous people want…
I’m not a moralist, so it really depends on the context of why white people are being killed.
Is this random and undirected violence against whitey? Then no, I don’t support that, because it’s not productive or constructive.
Is this strategic violence that’s aimed at achieving political aims? Is this being directed by a revolutionary party? Well. That’s different.
The best context I can give you without memory or without sources is that it is all Twitter leftism, the best kind of leftism. I don’t expect you to take a particular side in something I’m just relaying to you, I just wanted to make sure you weren’t one of those types.
TwitterX.com isn’t real life. People tend to take extreme positions because that’s what creates engagement and because they can only express themselves through text (and because it’s fun.)Like, I’ll vibe with
TweetsXits about “unlimited genocide on the first world!” but I don’t take that shit seriously. Until they actually do anything I don’t believe a word of it.Why though? Remember the “Kill all men” type of feminist that became unironic TERFs?
Sure, and I remember the ones that didn’t. I’m not sure what you think that proves?
You think it was wise to let unironic man-haters into a community with the ultimate goal of treating you as a subhuman?