As a ~12 year old, watching some random person's music video to a punk song with extremely brutal images of the Iraq War (child with half their head blown off is the one that I still see when I close my eyes).
I mean really it's continuous mini realisations - I don't even live in the US anymore but US propaganda is strong and it's hard to kill the US imperialist in your head lol. The feeling that my high school was racially segregated in a way that my elementary school wasn't. The family history of a friend of mine, whose parents were refugees - his mom fled American bombs in one country and his dad in another :') Seeing American hypocrisy re how they condemned state violence at e.g. the Maidan and then used similar or worse state violence at Standing Rock and Ferguson. Etc etc.
As a ~12 year old, watching some random person's music video to a punk song with extremely brutal images of the Iraq War (child with half their head blown off is the one that I still see when I close my eyes).
I mean really it's continuous mini realisations - I don't even live in the US anymore but US propaganda is strong and it's hard to kill the US imperialist in your head lol. The feeling that my high school was racially segregated in a way that my elementary school wasn't. The family history of a friend of mine, whose parents were refugees - his mom fled American bombs in one country and his dad in another :') Seeing American hypocrisy re how they condemned state violence at e.g. the Maidan and then used similar or worse state violence at Standing Rock and Ferguson. Etc etc.