I basically said the same thing to an "older friend" who wasn't sure about someone's pronouns. "Did you just ask them what they prefer?" "Oh. No. I didn't know you could do that." SMH
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No one ever asks me what I prefer, they just say dehumanizing and names with malicious intent like calling someone born in the 1980s a colonizer. But fuck me, how dare I expect respect and dignity like I give others.
aug 29, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Assuming you’re a white North American like me, I’d be very surprised if anyone’s ever actually called you a “colonizer” with malicious and dehumanizing intent, unless you were spouting some dumb racist shit. I’m older than you and have never been called that nor witnessed it being used as a slur.
aug 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree with this wholeheartedly.
aug 29, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view
And after looking at their time line yeah I can see someone calling them a colonizer 🤣
aug 29, 2025, 10:19 pm • 3 0 • view
acting like “colonizer” is a slur is really funny to me for some reason.
aug 29, 2025, 8:26 pm • 14 0 • view
Really really funny
aug 29, 2025, 11:25 pm • 5 0 • view
White folks in the US are very often descendant from actual colonizers--and not just during the colonial era--and the entire US project has been one of colonization from before the country existed, so I don't see the term "colonizer" as disrespectful, personally. Most of my forebearers settled...
aug 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 0 • view
where Dakota people lived, and those lands where taken from them. I did not do the colonizing myself, obviously, but the communities in which I grew up in the Twin Cities exist because of violent colonialism. Acknowledging that is important, indeed necessary, and hardly an affront to my dignity.
aug 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
That's actually still being respectful though...
aug 29, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view