I’m an American not of European descent. I’m not “white”. I’m perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.
When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe’s lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and “fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money” thinking behind. I’m certainly aware that “god, glory, and gold” did not start in the United States.
When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people’s parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that’s destroying the US currently. It’s just that it was much more than I expected.
Then you didnt do any reading then. There’s a reason ppl want to piss on Margaret Thatcher’s grave. Plus you got economic colonialist France and Spain’s dictatorship ending in the 70s. Also the amount of blackface they claim that totally isnt racist. Fuck Zwarte Piet
Europe is like Canada, they just have good PR. There’s a fuckton of skeletons in their closet and they havent changed as much as ppl like to think. Im an black American living in Germany and I clocked immediately its exactly the same as America. They just dont say the quiet parts outloud as often
I should clarify.
I’m an American not of European descent. I’m not “white”. I’m perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.
When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe’s lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and “fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money” thinking behind. I’m certainly aware that “god, glory, and gold” did not start in the United States.
When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people’s parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that’s destroying the US currently. It’s just that it was much more than I expected.
Then you didnt do any reading then. There’s a reason ppl want to piss on Margaret Thatcher’s grave. Plus you got economic colonialist France and Spain’s dictatorship ending in the 70s. Also the amount of blackface they claim that totally isnt racist. Fuck Zwarte Piet
Europe is like Canada, they just have good PR. There’s a fuckton of skeletons in their closet and they havent changed as much as ppl like to think. Im an black American living in Germany and I clocked immediately its exactly the same as America. They just dont say the quiet parts outloud as often