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If there is such a thing as generational trauma, then inflicting of trauma is also generational (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by multitotal@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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If we all agree that a people can experience trauma on a large scale and that trauma can then pass onto the descendants, then the reverse must also be true -- a people who have inflicted trauma on a large scale pass that experience onto the descendants.

People who are descended from people from slave-owning and imperialist nations carry with them the scars of slave ownership, genocide, oppression. It shows in the way they act, speak, think. Their worldview is informed by their history as masters of "lesser people".

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[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but also, USians cannot possibly think themselves as belonging to this national community or think as their wealth as a legitimate thing to have without a complete mythology of racism and liberalism

The superstructure maintains the structure, if you could magically remove racism from the psyche of americans the revolution would be immediate

[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not even talking about Americans only.

Look at Europe. A couple of years ago it was "refugees welcome" and if you weren't for letting every single refugee in you were a Nazi (fine by me). But now all of a sudden, it is the liberal, "left-wing" thing not to want immigrants, and to kick them out.

It is the "social-democrats" in Europe who are spearheading the anti-immigrant efforts, want to move asylum-seekers to concentration camps in Africa, pay warlords in Libya to stop the immigrant boats, support building a wall on the EU border (ironic, isn't it?), support sinking, returning and otherwise stopping migrant boats in the Mediterranean, and so on.

Anarchists too have shown themselves to be nothing more than followers of the dominant ideology. If the state says "refugees welcome" then anarchists say "refugees welcome". Now that the liberal European states have changed their tune, coincidentally so have the "anarchists".

Honestly, I cannot remember the last time I saw a "refugees welcome" sticker, banner or protest. Goes to show how much these liberal NGOs control the narrative and various "organic movements"