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[-] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I can understand that, in theory at least. My family's never had that kind of wealth, Mum's side were always dirt poor, we've never done well as a household but even at our poorest, we were still better off than Mum's family has ever been since they've been in North America. Dad's family... never did all that bad, came over more recently, his dad worked for the government, so they weren't rich but they had stability and the basics, but it's not like they have vast generational wealth.

Sure, we're white and probably benefited from institutional racism, and we absolutely need to reckon with that, but, like, I don't have any massive plantation shaped skeletons in the closet, we've always been working class. Certainly better off within that than a lot of folks, and minority status versus white privilege probably plays a role in that, but we're not those wealthy WASP types.

Honestly, at times I wish we did have more wealth and privilege, then I could use it to do some good. Be the good kind of class traitor. But we don't, so instead, I'm stuck with the conflict of "WASPs suck, and I look like one and do come from European colonial roots, but I'm trying my best to not act like my countrymen and to be supportive of a socialist revolution, not an obstacle to it."

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