#also I avoided giving granpa joe a blood quantum because i think that system is evil and heritage percent was not relevant to the soviets | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

elegomez · 7 months ago

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so imagine you're just minding your own business, living your normal life in your community, judging your neighbors and their churches, etc, when these random fuck-off people who just won the war with the US come to your house and tell you, that because you are "Scottish" (you have lived in appalachia your whole life, sure you have family who moved out here in like, the 1800s but what the fuck are they talking about), you do not ethnically belong HERE, and instead you are going to be moved to the region of SCOTSMERICALAND with all of the other "Scottish" people in your "homeland" of the region normally known as Pennsylvania, and when you get there you find you're next door neighbors with Evangelical Southerners on one side and the most obnoxious rich New Yorker you've ever met on your other side, and also all your shit was taken against your will and you got separated from your in-laws because they got moved to ENGLAMERICALAND and IRELAMERICALAND (and we're all worried about what happened to Granpa Joe who speaks Cherokee and has family on the rez) —

then you can start understanding what the soviets did to the peoples of central asia.

#central asia #dgg research #soviet russia #to keep following the allegory #that rancher over there killed all his cattle and burned his land to the ground to keep the other people from having it #that kid's family all committed suicide to avoid being moved #they're now telling you that the English all of you speak (what the fuck 'all of us' even talking about) is #actually a different language #this is fairly reductive for the purposes of examples #and I'm working at understanding it all myself and have been for like...eight months now #also I avoided giving granpa joe a blood quantum because i think that system is evil and heritage percent was not relevant to the soviets #when deciding where to send people #also those peoples were there for much longer #thousands of years rather than a few hundred #but this is to make the comparison for the average american to understand #not to get into an argument about US colonialism #which was at least similarly awful if not worse because the aim was explicitly genocide #where in soviet central asia it was...cultural reprogramming and led to millions of deaths #but it wasn't precisely the same even if I do think it was evil

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