Would you rather have no trackable ancestral history or one that can be chased back to raping, enslaving, massacring people as most white people do? Which is preferable?
Are tribal africans in extremely impoverished conditions with extremely high mortality and morbidity rates happy that they have kept their language and their history, or would they trade it for your situation and your ‘dark’ history?
This trying to re-write history or make retrospective moral judgments is absolute insanity. That, I think, is the heart of why people are upset by this ridiculous vandalism and statue destroying. It makes no sense to try re-write history in this way, to make moral judgments going back in time–I saw in the other thread @arsenescoatmaker say that Bezos etc. are no different than the slave traders of 400 years ago, in that they’re doing everything within the rules to get ahead, and he’s totally right, the later clarification that they are crossing some moral boundary by enslaving and thus worse those of 400 years ago is non-sensical, because they didn’t perceive it as a moral boundary, and nor did most of the world, just as 400 years later there will be lots of things we are doing now that we don’t perceive as moral boundaries which will be considered highly immoral–moral judgments are already a complicated and slippery slope as it is, because most moral arguments either have to rely on relativism (in which case these guys are certainly not immoral, relative to their time) or break down without a reliance on some God cop-out.
Another reason why the left is such an absolute joke nowadays: it’s almost entirely dependent on flimsy moral arguments that break down at the seams. Meanwhile minority and repressed classes get caught up in this no-win game where everyone’s just talking a bunch of bollocks and not getting anywhere or getting places extremely slowly, and the actual racists and people in power and with insane amount of wealth are content as fuck to let you all battle out your pointless little battle so long as they ensure that the current world order keeps serving them.
Just to take the US for an example, as @BigWeng_4LYFE mentioned, the one candidate with whom blacks really standed to gain was Bernie Sanders. What blacks would gain in America with a socialist-leaning president or someone who really disrupts the current capitalist set-up is far, far more than what they can even hope to gain with current protests.
Yet, what is it that gets people up in arms? A publicised murder, completely isolated from any information about stats about the progression of police brutality in recent years, completely isolated from other informations like the incarceration system in the US, health stats re: Covid and the black community, health stats re: economic prosperity and the black community, etc, which are far more revealing of actual systemic either racism or damage to the black community via the actual workings of the system in which they live in.
This shit serves the powers that be greatly. As long as black people or any other repressed group keeps getting up in arms about shit like this and getting into the moral arguments which basically all the territory of the popular left breaks down into these days and not putting money and manpower forward for actual causes that will disrupt things and really benefit them, you guys are just obedient pawns in the game.