I don’t know why I’m surprised they don’t but I really expected that maybe this time they would care even a tiny bit.
Like they kinda sorta cared a little bit about healthcare for a minute and that blew over, and then they kinda sorta cared about minority rights for longer than I expected so that was cool but these issues are actually kind of historically complex and difficult to solve so I wasn’t too surprised when libs just… fucking forgot. Climate change, me too, student loan debt…all sorta kinda complex in certain ways.
But genocide is so simple. It’s probably the least complicated issue that libs have ever had to confront. Bombs go out children go boom it cannot be less complicated.
And yet here we are with libs across America hand wringing about how well it’s maybe not genocide and maybe it’s somehow complicated and maybe we should talk about it after we defeat Trump who we’re SURE will do this complicated thing we can’t quite understand worse somehow.
I guess if genocide staring libs in the actual face isn’t enough to get them to care a tiny itty bitty bit about maybe trying to do something good for once…is there anything that possibly could? I can’t imagine much worse of a thing than literal genocide. Maybe libs are just wholly incapable of using their brains or their hearts in any capacity at all.
And if that’s the case is there any hope at all? I know there is but man this moment watching this election and everyone cheering wholeheartedly for as much genocide as they possibly can might be one of the most hopeless I’ve ever felt
maybe some in political power but the average american doesn’t know anything about any systems or their place in them
food comes from the grocery store.
Yeah I’m with you on this one. They don’t consciously know it, and the material benefits (ie treats) they receive as a resident of the imperial core help keep them from noticing.
As a Klanadian (little different), the average settler-Klanadian can at least recognize that their grocery store, their neighborhood, their entire country is built on stolen land whose theft sustained through consistent lowkey genocide. Some people can recognize how fucked that is (increasingly more, at least). Others will wring their hands, look the other way, and pretend they feel bad about it but “it is what it is” now (while harboring plenty of racist biases, etc). Others still will be actively supportive of retaining their hateful status quo, and a portion of all three demographics will engage in perpetuating it in one way or another, because that’s how their bread is buttered, if nothing else.
Same goes for AmeriKKKa, and same goes for the racial hierarchy and divide-and-conquer system across the west, the imperialist economic systems that sustain the west, etc. It’s easy to claim innocence, right up until the colored peoples (as an Asian myself) are becoming “competition,” right up until material, or even just social equality (nevermind even reparations to this group or that, or to the entire countries and nations lying in ruins, or the return of stolen goods) is brought to the table.
Not saying all Americans/white westerners are guilty, hell, the majority are varying degrees of ignorant as you describe and many are also genuinely innocent and appalled by the system. Liberals though certainly are exactly just as asg101 described though (those that aren’t, don’t remain libs for long), and for the rest- well, while I think there’s truth to what you both say, obviously and sadly I think it leans more in the negative direction, especially when push comes to shove.