Mastodawn

myrmepropagandist Jul 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.

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SBird

@futurebird I really hope our colonial history in Portugal is being taught differently to kids now than it was in my time. Very little mention of slave trade, too much mention of "peaceful" cultural exchange. I was a child, so I don't remember what I learned that well, but I didn't get the impression it was bad. Only when I studied the end of the dictatorship in the XXth century did I go back and evaluate why people are still very much racist.