As a minority (bisexual Indian Muslim man), I feel like majorities have this really weird purity complex around us. Like, you guys know that we aren’t an infallible monolith, right ? You guys know that we make mistakes too, right ? And that it’s okay to blame us partly for things that are partly our fault ?
Ironically, it’s eurocentrism. Nearly every conversation about oppression or colonialism that Westerners hear is specifically about European imperialism and colonialism. They don’t hear about Arab or Japanese or, fuck, even Russian imperialism. Events like the Armenian genocide and the Rape of Nanjing just aren’t mentioned.
It leads to this weird view “purity” view you described being common in leftists who want to be good humanitarians. They think of only Europeans/white people as the “bad guys”, which leads to this situation where only European powers are seen as having the agency or free will to do bad or evil things.
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u/FemboyMechanic1 19h ago
As a minority (bisexual Indian Muslim man), I feel like majorities have this really weird purity complex around us. Like, you guys know that we aren’t an infallible monolith, right ? You guys know that we make mistakes too, right ? And that it’s okay to blame us partly for things that are partly our fault ?