#the feeling when people assume that you are fash-adjacent and nativist because you talked about oral history in general

[hearthfire-heartfire]

genuinely, people feel free to say any shit to japanese folks online

i am constantly questioned on my own goddamn history by anime fans who think they are morally superior to me because they have uncritically consumed western perspectives on imperial fascism.

i’m not just learning history from books or online, i get to learn from my community and my relatives and my people who have built coalitions of resistance that have lasted for generations.

and not only that, i study how my ancestors and relatives walked on the earth. i keep seeds. i keep recipes. i keep fabric and crafts and stories and songs. history is so much more than the movements of the powerful, and it’s so, so much longer than the last 6000 years of nation states battling for dominance. the person who inspired this post blocked me for pushing back on their racism but i have a screenshot of their reply and their asks still show up in a search of their username. a lot of those asks had to do with anime fandom stuff. i’m so fucking tired of people who disdain the creators of what they consume.