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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • While this is true I feel it fails to acknowledge the real history of Europe. Europe was always involved in cultural exchanges with people from other continents, albeit at a slower rate than in modern times. This idea that there is some authentic, independent, ancestral European culture that we need to return to is itself a white supremacist fabrication. So while it’s good that people started to turn away from this myth, it’s also necessary to acknowledge that it was always an illusion. Those traditional European arts and other cultural cornerstones were also influenced by multiple cultures.


  • I mean there are things in American history that are worth celebrating. But it’s usually the nameless people who struggled against the ones they build statues of.

    I do find the whole concept of feeling some sense of accomplishment and pride over things you personally had nothing to do with to be kind of distasteful. If you aren’t living your life in a way that you can feel proud of your own actions and instead feel the need to act as if you have some ownership of things that happened before you were born then maybe that’s a sign that you need to make a change.