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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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Crackers get to spend 400+ years genociding, enslaving, and warring with the people who disagreed with the first two parts; but as soon as you remind them what their history looks like and why you don't trust them because of it, all of a sudden, it's "reverse racism". Like, no Polly, you don't get to racialize the whole goddamn world and expect no one's gonna do it to you-- especially with 400+ years of malfeasance to point to.
(Trying to be vague-ish with the details, but) it was actually even longer than 400 years ago when the western euros did a holy war on my homeland and completely eradicated more than half of our sister nations, which was a fact completely hidden from me by the comprador regime while I was growing up. Cultures, languages and ways of being that are gone forever, erased from the historical record. Not to mention the occupation within the last century where 100s of thousands of >ethnic minority< were genocided. The occupation even acheived complete eradication and homogeneity in some areas...
And only then do we get to the intimately personal level, where our economy got hooked up to the boom and bust cycle of capitalistm in one of the most fucked implementations imaginable, with one of these inevitable "busts" eventually displacing my family after some suits in the US didn't manage their financial gambling toys or whateverthefuck correctly and we bore the brunt of their failure while they received billions of dollars because god forbid they would go out of business... Of course we ended up in fascist britain being the underclass who, I was literally taught in school, "didn't need" to be paid as much as the brits "because they will accept it" ಠ益ಠ
Like I get that it's up to me to work through these feelings and that random working class people don't deserve all of that to be put on them, but if I share this shit with someone and they have no empathy for my situation then they're just giving away which side they're actually on.
The opposite is true, when it comes to fascists, imperialists, or settlers, that crackers and other adjacent people defend
If they have enough sympathy to defend for the former, I assume they see themselves in the other
It's a major tell when they start rationalizing fascists. Slavery, for example, often gets the "Well it was just how things were. Slavery wasn't considered wrong and you can't apply today's morality!"
You know who didn't support slavery? Slaves. You're telling on yourself that you see yourself as a slave owner and don't sympathize with the oppressed. You likely don't even consider them people.
It's the era of self-reporting afaic-- when someone tells me who they are and who they side with, that's deaded from that point forward. A whole unholy host of settlers decided "y'know what, fuck a mask"-- guess that's the one silver lining of the death of shame; now the opps are PROUD of letting us know what it is.