Hey, Right-Wing Whites: If You’re Not To blame For This Country’s History of Oppression Because You “weren’t around then”, You Can’t Take Credit The Good Parts, Either.

It is a common sentiment, among those who, like myself, are considered white, but who hold reactionary views on politics, that nobody has the right to expect them to take any responsibility for the history of white supremacy/enslavement/the Indigenous Genocide/the theft of half of Mexico by U.S. troops in an unprovoked invasion between 1846–48, because “we weren’t born then”, “it was before my time”, or “MY people weren’t here yet”.