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#yt ppl have where everyone has to be equally guilty or equally innocent in the stuff
borderlinevamp · 4 months
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Something I struggle with when it comes to having white friends is there like inherent belief “all humanity is guilty” mindset.
I commented to a friend that when video essayist talk about “the human races guilt” or “Americans need for conquest” I all ways say “who is WE?”. She responded about something about collective human guilt and I just…
My family was enslaved or being displaced for most of the last 200 hundred years,
My ancestral country is still to this day punished for getting independence.
No, i don’t see ALL humanity as equally guilty. And while I recognize we all have a responsibility to do better and no one is truly “innocent” in capitalism…when I say “who is we” I mean it. My ancestors are not responsible for half the reprehensible shit that caused us to be here today. Sorry.
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