it's probably mostly a product of My Very Specific Traumas with how i've been treated in certain spaces, but i always get pretty uncomfortable when folks are acting out historical fantasies of an "uncolonized world" via their video games or stories or tabletop stuff or whatnot because i find it tough to hear anything other than the idea that - a better world is one that necessarily precludes the existence of me and people with similar backgrounds to me
idk im definitely overthinking this but im very tired of me and my background and culture being percieved as, like... inextricably tied to the circumstances by which it came about. in a way, it feels like i've run into a lot of people who look at me and see a Symbol For The Legacy Of The Colonial more than a... person who might have her own perspective on her origins.
Being mixed is like that. You get othered, because people project their beliefs about race and ethnicity and nationalism onto you
i have a lot of discomfort with the "anticolonial" currents within the modern internet left because of how often i've seen folks espousing that just be Absolutely Awful to folks who... just didn't have a choice on where they came from or the circumstances of their birth.
I have an Afrikaner-American friend, please stop making "Kill the Boer" jokes to her
it's frustrating. people should know better
you can believe that an action in the past was bad, damaging, awful, without being awful to people who exist in the present. you can believe in the existence of systemic racism and oppression while still rejecting the doctrine of sins-of-the-father
everything must be judged on a case by case basis - by a person's actions, not their appearance or their family. even if it's hard, even if broad categories are easier.
it's the only moral thing to do.