epoch flicker !!//ofCutyg replied with this 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,916
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Being White doesn’t make you immune to racial pain, it just makes it harder to name. You grow up ashamed of a culture you’re told is toxic yet nonexistent, afraid to speak about race for fear of seeming fragile or ignorant. You feel invisible and hypervisible at once, blamed for a system you didn’t create but can’t escape. No, it’s not oppression… but the guilt, alienation, and confusion still leave scars.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,917
@previous (epoch flicker !!//ofCutyg)
Idk, I’m half white half black and I’ve never really felt like that. I think imperialism is bad, but my white ancestors came from a country that didn’t have an empire.
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,920
I also think that it’s possible for things to be neither completely good nor completely bad. Like, the British empire was bad, what the British did during World War Two was good. The Nazis were bad, the other accomplishments of Germans like building gothic cathedrals, manufacturing cars, etc. The point is, I feel like it’s kind of a choice that people make to identify with the bad stuff. If somebody is German for instance, they could admit the Nazis are bad and still be proud of the hundreds of years of German history that aren’t the Nazis.
Anonymous A (OP) triple-posted this 6 months ago, 3 minutes later, 16 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,921
It’s not necessarily unique to Europeans though. For example, the Japanese committed a lot of atrocities and they’re not white. There are some countries in Africa that have committed atrocities, it’s just in the west, people don’t see Africa as important, so they only bring up Africa as it relates to the west.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 4 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,927
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The transatlantic slave trade. Also killing people in order to take their resources to make a tiny island wealthy at the expense of the rest of the world.
For example, in the Benin Empire which was located in modern day Nigeria, what the British did, is they arrived, they stole artwork from the imperial palace, they burned the city down, took a bunch of bronze statues back to Britain, and then said that the Nigerians were uncivilized and the British civilized them.
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 6 months ago, 6 minutes later, 39 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,928
They actually didn’t kill the monarch though interesting enough. The line of succession for the throne still exists even though the empire doesn’t exist.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 months ago, 2 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,930
@previous (D)
Just because Britain stopped doing it doesn’t mean they didn’t do it in the first place. I think Britain ending slavery was a good thing and I think Britain today is a country that does more good than bad. They still did bad stuff in the past though.
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 6 months ago, 4 minutes later, 47 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,376,932
But I think even during periods where the British were colonizing other countries, there are still other things you could find to be proud of like the invention of the steam engine and the Industrial Revolution or Isaac Newton and the development of physics or something. There’s other stuff one can be proud of in their history other than killing the most people.