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ReturnOfFa posted...

If I was German, I think I'd be reflective of what my grandparents took part in. I do not consider this psychotic. I am white, so I consider how my ancestors effected the people on the land I live, and it was negatively. I don't need to lash myself or anything, but I'm definitely not going to make the disgusting jokes about natives that I've heard other white people make. Could you imagine a Jewish person asking a German person if they felt guilty for the Holocaust, and the German answering 'no', or just trying to act like someone was 'psychotic' for wishing to discuss it?

I don't know how you process guilt, I don't really think acknowledging guilt is especially arduous.

Most of my native friends definitely don't consider this as something that 'happened before they were even born' because the effects of colonization are still with them and still occurring. Their lands are still being raped, their women still murdered, and the investigations still ignored. As a Canadian, I feel guilty for this, but it's not in whatever way you seem to feel process guilt and feel adverse to it.

I get what youre saying but yeah Im not gonna feel bad about something I didnt do.

That doesnt mean Im not going to not feel bad about what has happened, but Im not gonna be like Im such a horrible person because of what someone else did either (especially to try and get Internet Good Boy Points )