my immigrant great-grandparents came here, formed labor unions, multiplied, and their descendants (me) have been busy taking your place at the institutions of higher ed you consider yourself entitled to. 👍
The Canadian ones call themselves “old stock Canadians” as though there don’t exist Chinese-Canadians with longer Canadian roots than fully half the white population
yeah that term is p much exclusively used by Conservatives to say “we’re the ones who get to decide what Canadian culture is” and no!! they really don’t!!!! Like first of all their Scottish-born 2x great-grandfather would not recognize an iota of their whole deal as “his culture” & also it’s gross
among the numerous ironies of trying that here in the US, the most blatantly obvious has to be the fact that essentially every african-american's roots reach back to the colonial era, and as a group they tend to reject the idea of america as a rightwing herrenvolk democracy
Yes heritage American here (Italian with a fake title, thrown out of Canada, repeatedly lost multiple fortunes despite multiple generations of white collar crime), I think we should deport more Anglos
So am I! Never been able to get a straight story about it. I get the suspicion that large parts of my family history aren't just normal embarrassing but extraordinarily embarrassing.
I have a bit of that, if they actually researched what became of so many people of that era, well let’s just say that America’s immigrants after the revolution are the real architects of its later greatness. Alousius Bumblefuck Proctor was probably a shit stain.
It says a lot about their distant progeny that the best they can do is say they were related to people from back then. If you know anything about their lives and beliefs you can really get a feel for how far we’ve come since. Good is high subjective in this case.
we're all products of our place and time, and i wouldn't like being judged by ppl 300 years hence, but in every era there's a sliding scale and i'm sure that if we were to visit, we would find some people with a recognizable morality. how many? i don't know
Yep. Getting back to the Heritage American’(yuck) idea: what is White Supremacy if not making aspects of yourself that are at best tangential to your relative worth as person absolutely central to your identity? So tired of these assholes man.
