You know what, there is a thing where we all see our self through American lense
Yes, I am drunk, so I will ramble, and maybe delete later
USA;
We think it is the progressive lense, the leftist lense, no, not even a lense -just a… THE reasonable, objective, morally right and true and only way to look at the world, the only valid, smart interpretation of the world
Only interacting with the USA idea of imperialism, Blackness, otherness, ostratisation, queerness
Not knowing anything about Nigerians, Kenyans, Ghanians, Erytreans
Everything filtered nicely through English (at that, USA and UK English). English sources are the most unbiased, most neutral, the default are they not? What brainwashing is this
Even highly educated people in universities believe this, internalise this
Slogans, terms, lectures, all sounding so lofty, so strong, so smart, only to ring shallow at the end
German philosophy students learning of some USA concepts and looking down at people their own nation subjugated, colonised and tortured, seeing them as backwards, not interested ever in any of their culture or language or history. Learning some CONCEPTS ABOUT THE WORLD from the one source that matters (American concepts, and some general stuff like Freud, Larousse, Foucault)
Who do they need to learn about WWII if not themselves? Maybe even not this -just USA?
When encountering an immigrant, not knowing what to do
Literally being surprised and not knowing what to do in a country that is one of the most immigrated to places
Thinking that simply through solely taking on LGBT+ or/and leftist identity they become enlightened, and do not have anything to learn about anymore. Maybe aside of watching a few anglocentric, especially USA centric vids on YouTube
Oh, how lovely are those slogans, terms, cool political spicy art containing stickers
That is all that is needed. A demo, a sticker, a USA "breadtuber".
What is the queer history of YOUR OWN LAND? Who helped to develop, win human rights reforms in your own land? what does "immigrant" means? What are the Black people in YOUR LAND? Or in African lands? Asian ones? Kurdish? Syrian? Roma? Tatar? Anyone?
Irrelevant. Everything is American concepts, big American racialisations, big America ideas and interpretations -but take them as gospel, as unbiased knowledge. You, little person from backwards land, what do you know? Surely, they know more about you, your situation, your land, politics than you yourself or anyone around you, no matter what. Even without learning ANYTHING and through pure assumptions. They are that good!!
Misery tourism - visit places of "your roots" for a day and fuck off. Visit a museum of suffering, make few photos and fuck off. Do not interact with actual culture of the place. Pretend for a moment you are not who you are. Like Americans pretend sometimes they are not Americans first and foremost.
Listen to those big, enlightened leftists, most of whom is teens or people who never seen another culture; maybe they watched an anime and heard a thing or two about some Mexicans or Arabs or whatever. They ate a taco once, reaching enlightenment.
Germans with their Aryan burden, speaking about vague Jews - that is important, see? This makes them not acknowledge, not think about WHERE these Jewish people were from. What cultures, languages, they came from.
That makes it so they could focus on themselves.
Reportedly, most Germans believe Germany suffered the most in WWII.That THEY were the biggest victims!!
Oppressive government. Being conscripted. And whatnot, you know.
They cannot differentiate a war that is "just" war and an attempt to decimate, to biologically and culturally genocide peoples. They just cannot comprehend it.
Now they carry all this burden, all what happened . They know better than AAAAANYONE about it and will lecture you about it. Yes, yes, yes, and slavs, they are genetically bigoted, they never were as civilised as Germans, they never become as enlightened as the Germans, so are they not either pitable or to be looked down upon, as genetically bigoted folk? With funny accents, good for blue collar jobs, silly troglodytes?
And of course, how easy it is to internalise this stuff, especially as all the shit you see around is the norm to you, is what your nation is to you. Some even dream of being invaded by the "progressive powers". They feel as if their blood is the blood of a rat and abroad, they would rather forget, pretend they are local than admit where they are from if they can hide it.
No "Western leftist" cares anyways. Noone told them to. They heard SOMETHING about some far away Muslims, about some far away American Black people (do they even interact with any?) - that is enough. Why do they need to care and learn about anything more? They became enlightened and superior the moment they began to identify as trans/leftist/whatever
And we, we look up to them as the ones who figured it all, instead of having our own thing, our own queerness, our own stuff, looking up to clumsily copy from our overlords who seem so friendly, but minimise anything you open your mouth about. Maybe they will pity you, and the country you come from, and think about it as something nasty, dirty, to discard and avoid.
Then they will leave you alone.
Germans, with so many leftists, with so much Aryan burden, never carying about at least Nuremberg transcripts. Does anyone who mentions them ever read them?
Never ever acknowledging their colonisations and subjugations and enslavements of people, including Slavs, INCLUDING POLES, prior to Weimar, call for the genocide of these, which are quite old. Older than Hitler. Much older.
Even about acknowledgements about WWII it feels as if you had to fight tooth and nail about -and who would do that? All the energy spent, becoming the weird, drama causing one. You do not want to be that, do you?
They barely have few lines about that in own schools
So depressing. Noone wants to hear you. UK deporting and undermining people, but only care about "their own" (like maybe sometimes some Irish perhaps when they feel like it) or again, some stuff they heard about from USA. USA could not give less shit about you, they just exotisize you and often place you as lesser (and therefore, automatically will perceive anything you say as more childish, confusing, unimportant, irrelevant).
And yet, we still internalise, look up to them, are ashamed of where we come from
Instead of learning from Iranian anarchists, Vietnamese anarchists like meo mun, Chinese ones, various African ones whatever, nothing
Why is USA Black person voice above Black Nigerian voice ? Why is USA voice above our own? Why is Anglo voice above our own?
Immigration and going to demos, going to leftist groups and events, reading articles and simply interacting with anyone makes you realise they see you as nothing, but they think themselves so generous for allowing you to exist and expect your gratitude for it; they think this is radical on its own.
Later they will make a demo about how all money should go solely to their own people, to the Aryans, I mean, proper German citizens, and not some dirrrrty foreigners, like the Ukrainians. They should get the noble, good thoughts and prayers, no more!
Maybe sometimes they will say the Muslim refugees are fine, at least some. But do they care about them? Interact with them? Or just say it because they think it gives them moral points in the eyes of their peers, just before they oppose helping or supporting any other types of refugees or immigrant and they sit on their ass playing Nintendo games and making meow meow noises at each other?
Before they claim shit like that anyone genocided by Russians and their lackeys -provoked them-? Much progressive, very radical.
Who can understand you? Especially if they do not even want to hear you?
My great grandmother was the only one allegedly at her village who learnt to somewhat read, so she said.
Noone I meet not only can understand, but has any interest or care. I cannot share so many things; linguistic, media, historical; myself… I thought I was to leave all this stuff behind as lesser, uncivilised, worse; forget all this. But then I came into society that not only sees me as weird, but also lesser and foreign, and culturally worse and insignificant, leading me to re-evaluate myself, where I come from, my memories, experiences, sentiments. Things I did not notice, or which I despised before.
From a regular whatever person, to a highly educated high degree ones -everyone views you as lesser.
USA giddy, anxious and excited, talking about NuCLeaR WaR and WhAT If WWIIi lol UwU?
As if they would be the ones hit much.
Then Germans, whose main worry is maybe maybe they could be conscripted, and they cannot then anymore sit on their ass playing vidya games. Ok, understandable partially, until you realise this is the only concern. Not about people already hurt, enslaved, tortured; not about people who were before; not about those who most likely could be next; but about themselves and being separated from their Nintendos.
And the it hits, straight into the heart.
No, you do not matter ,you never did. Just like Moldavia does not, Erytrea, Chechnya, Armenia, Sudan, Congo, Sahel, Phillipines, Turkmenistan; even Vietnam, or Cuba. All matter only either if the Anglo news blast about them enough that people get annoyed or distressed about it, or as pawns in some as if game to raise your own woke points in the eyes of your friends -probably while shitposting and waiving a hammer and a sickle around, if you are a Western Leftism
What does my queerness means
When Western queers minimise my immigrant status, my culture, do not care about my history, or their own really
Who leave you alone, maybe unless they feel like they can fuck you sometimes
Intellectuals, Leftism, knowledge, racialisation
Everything filtered through USA lenses, especially by cultures that already viewed you as less developed; socially, mentally, genetically maybe even
Even science put though this "default" (hegemonic) lense
They do not need to learn about you or Russia to know allllll about it. They do not need to learn about Europe. About anything, really. About various indigenous people (just learn about some Native Americans maybe a bit perhaps if you feel like it and then apply it to every other group ever in the world)
We copy terms from USA, everything, and they judge us by their own narrow standards
We do not even know about ourselves as much as we know about them
My great grandfathers were from a village where people fell to the ground to pray if they saw a plane in the sky, saying it is a cross
What does that mean? I am a city folk. I am like them, like Germans, like French, like anyone, like British, like Americans, what differences are there between us? That is stupid, we are all the same, at least those of us that are EDUCATED and not morons, I used to feel, I think.
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