One is that I have a very, very hard time trusting European leftists. I've seen so many European leftists still be horribly antiziganist (even on here, and even other nonwhite Europeans) while being pretty great activists otherwise. I don't think most communists would want us to be in their ideal utopia honestly.
And this plays into that, but also so many European liberals (especially online) focus on America's racial issues to ignore their own. Like talking about how racist America is while completely ignoring how incredibly antiBlack their country is, and again not to mention how they almost all act like Nazis towards Gypsies.
However I am also suspicious when nonBlack, nonAmerican people say shit like "Why are we always SO focused on America's issues" in a passive aggressive way. Honestly feels like a dogwhistle of like "can we please stop talking about antiBlackness." So while I do want other people to accept their own country's faults and address them, it also has to not be in a way that seeks to undermine Black Americans discussing racism against them... if that makes sense. I think this is a big issue on Twitter especially, so I don't know if you guys have seen that sort of behaviour as well.
Yes, it's a lot. Like I always think about how one of the worst things people considered Trump to say during his campaign was Mexicans are all rapists. Which is HORRIBLE to say, don't get me wrong. But there have been countless politicians in Europe within the last 5 years run on the promise of killing Roma. The average Europeans are somehow more loud and proud of racism than the average American, in my experience.
One is that I have a very, very hard time trusting European leftists. I've seen so many European leftists still be horribly antiziganist (even on here, and even other nonwhite Europeans) while being pretty great activists otherwise. I don't think most communists would want us to be in their ideal utopia honestly.
And this plays into that, but also so many European liberals (especially online) focus on America's racial issues to ignore their own. Like talking about how racist America is while completely ignoring how incredibly antiBlack their country is, and again not to mention how they almost all act like Nazis towards Gypsies.
However I am also suspicious when nonBlack, nonAmerican people say shit like "Why are we always SO focused on America's issues" in a passive aggressive way. Honestly feels like a dogwhistle of like "can we please stop talking about antiBlackness." So while I do want other people to accept their own country's faults and address them, it also has to not be in a way that seeks to undermine Black Americans discussing racism against them... if that makes sense. I think this is a big issue on Twitter especially, so I don't know if you guys have seen that sort of behaviour as well.
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Yes, it's a lot. Like I always think about how one of the worst things people considered Trump to say during his campaign was Mexicans are all rapists. Which is HORRIBLE to say, don't get me wrong. But there have been countless politicians in Europe within the last 5 years run on the promise of killing Roma. The average Europeans are somehow more loud and proud of racism than the average American, in my experience.