That's funny, when I tell people that white Americans and their descendants for ten generations should all be enslaved in the gulags for life or be shot, I'm the evil one

[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

at least keep me around as a pet or something plz catgirl-cry

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm cute with teddy bear ears and I give the best hugs, I promise!

(Not American, and I hate the stereotypical WASP mindset that most of them should be tossed in a gulag for, but... white Westerner, so not like most of y'all care about the specifics.)

[–] Des@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

my direct ancestors had a plantation and it weighs on me even if that ancestor got owned in the civil war

i guess if there are gulags for generational punishment im not escaping that one but that also means some revolution succeeded so hopefully the commissar is merciful

catgirl-flop

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Eh personally I think all we really need is to do what China did in Xinjiang but to conservative Christians but it's gonna take a civil war or 2 to get us there

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can understand that, in theory at least. My family's never had that kind of wealth, Mum's side were always dirt poor, we've never done well as a household but even at our poorest, we were still better off than Mum's family has ever been since they've been in North America. Dad's family... never did all that bad, came over more recently, his dad worked for the government, so they weren't rich but they had stability and the basics, but it's not like they have vast generational wealth.

Sure, we're white and probably benefited from institutional racism, and we absolutely need to reckon with that, but, like, I don't have any massive plantation shaped skeletons in the closet, we've always been working class. Certainly better off within that than a lot of folks, and minority status versus white privilege probably plays a role in that, but we're not those wealthy WASP types.

Honestly, at times I wish we did have more wealth and privilege, then I could use it to do some good. Be the good kind of class traitor. But we don't, so instead, I'm stuck with the conflict of "WASPs suck, and I look like one and do come from European colonial roots, but I'm trying my best to not act like my countrymen and to be supportive of a socialist revolution, not an obstacle to it."

[–] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

yeah same. if it helps, my family lost all that generational wealth when the civil war guy i mentioned sold it all for gambling debts

after that our privilege just came form our fading family legacy, which helped secure some nice government jobs in the 20th century.

we just returned to our roots as a long line of financial administrators but mostly just working class again. at most i inherited some cool historical memorabilia.