He called me a setter and a nazi out of the blue, and I asked him if he slanders everyone or if he has a reason for saying that about me, then he replies with this legendary quote:
If you’re Amerikan, then you live in the bowels of the single most brutal settler-colonial entity to exist in the modern era. “Settling” is not a once-and-done action; it is a constant state as long as you are on settled land.
I understand I benefit from colonialism, but my hands are kinda tied! I It’s like I don’t even own property the super wealthy are the real colonisers! We mostly went from beneficiary to bystanders, to victims as well. And I call out genocide every chance I get but to the hexbear I might as well have done the atrocities myself…
Yeah when I joke with my native buddies about the whole “stolen land” thing (which absolutely white colonizers stole land from natives in Canada) I’m always like “well boys, they didn’t give any to me and my family, because we still don’t own shit.”
The working poor are part of the victims, we aren’t part of the victimizers. Myself personally, I wouldn’t shed one single fucking tear if all the generational colonialist pigfucks had to return all the land they own to native Canadians.
Just do the best you can with the power you have.
Nobody wants to heart this, but: All of the abuses of power on the large scale are personal issues that have continued, unresolved, into the large scale, because we haven’t resolved them on the small scale.
Do your part. Process your shit. Through that, you gain the perspective to use what power you do have well, without fucking yourself or others over in the process.