Lotta smug European comments on that ICE-agent-gets-shot-by-homeowner news story, including someone who (apparently with a straight face) says that if there were an ICE equivalent in Europe "a lot more of them would be getting hunted down and shot" and just a quick question, how's the fucking forcing-migrant-boats-away-from-safe-harbor-so-they-drown thing going? Or the charging-migrants-who-survive-as-criminal-invaders thing?
Or even the beating-and-maiming-student-protesters thing?
We came from you. We are the same whether you want that to be true or not. We have a bigger gun culture here because your governments and rulers sent many of our predecessors over specifically to subdue and genocide an entire continent's worth of people in the name of your commerce and colonies so fuck right off with the "we're so civilized in Europe, the Civilization Center of the universe" crap. America is an extension of European history. It never ended. We are you. Just because you've managed over time to (somewhat) outsource that bleeding-edge violence to your nation-states' colonial projects, like the US, like South Africa, like Australia, (and more recently, to the multinational corporations who still murder for your resources) doesn't mean you ever stopped being violently racist.
So go fight this fight in your own backyard, where it started. Destroying the centuries-long legacy of European genocidal colonization is a task that belongs to all of us, not just the predictably hideous outgrowth of that conquest, the vile white supremacist project that is the United States. This hellish legacy belongs to all of us and it's up to all of us to end it.
