myrmepropagandistJul 30, 2023

I've been trying to find the right way to articulate this-- but the folks on the right have it backwards about who is driven by "white guilt" --

This impulse to cover up and distort the history of slavery reeks of shame. It's, frankly, weird. Nobody has perfect ancestors, what sort of crisis of identity leads one to lie about the past.

It's just the things that happened. You learn about them you learn from them. You do better. Don't make it so emotional and personal.

Show threadMilesMcBain
@futurebird I’m from Australia, where the details are different but broad strokes are similar to other colonised countries. The situation is a lot of families with wealth that goes back generations derrived that wealth through race-based violence. Land theft, massacres, slavery, exploitation etc. I think it’s likely that white washing of history was largely motivated by protecting their wealth from questions of legitimacy and compensation, and that’s why it’s done so aggressively.
Jul 30, 2023 at 1:42amWeb
Show threadMilesMcBainJul 30, 2023
@futurebird fast forward a century or two and that protective deception has been baked into the culture as a reflex. You do tend to see it strongest in rural areas, and perhaps that has something to do with the fact that that land is most at risk from native title claims.