Ardainian Right on Nostr: I think we underestimate how much mental damage early-wave PC that's permeated the ...

I think we underestimate how much mental damage early-wave PC that's permeated the culture has done to American identity, including many I've absorbed. The worst was defining "Native American" as referring exclusively to American Indians, which serves to de-legitimize whites as being native inhabitants even after being here for centuries, and defining them as fundamentally identical to any rando who hopped the border 5 minutes ago. There's plenty of other constructs designed to funnel non-whites into a homogenized anti-white coalition, some subtler than others. One big one has been the banishment of the term "negro" in favor of "black" or "African American," which erase any distinction between darker-skinned peoples of African ancestry, and in particular erases the African diaspora in America descended from slaves and their unique identity and history. Barack Obama and Kamala Harris are two prominent examples of "African American" affirmative action babies with no ancestral connection to the American Negro we all think of.