I am experiencing growing horror as I am educating myself on the true extent of indigenous genocide in the United States.
It is not a pleasant thing to dwell on.
But you know what I don't find myself doing? Identifying myself with people who committed atrocities.
I'm not feeling personally attacked because when I see settler-colonialism, I recognize it as my enemy too.
I am fucking concerned by the defensiveness. What is there to defend here?