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#aaaaaaand THIS is why plenty of us aren’t shocked by the royal revelations this week
notquitetwilight · 3 years
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me: this is why it’d be historically and culturally inaccurate for an irish person of a certain period to be friends with an english person of a certain period
brits/anglophiles: sO yOu WoULdN’t bE fRiEnDs WiTh a BriTiSh pErSoN bAsEd On yOuR oWn GeNeRaLiSaTiOnS???
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also what actions and character should siobhán judge carlisle by if she’s not allowed take her own cultural experiences into account??? moving to an area while knowing his family’s presence would change the genes of the local tribe??? allowing his family to treat the pack like shit??? changing a dying woman bc he recognised her from when she was a pretty 16-year-old??? changing another dying woman bc he thought she’d make a good bride for his son??? letting a confederate into his family??? drugging (and ditching) a woman in order to steal her car??? stealing jacob’s dna out of his own curiousity??? those actions??????? that character???????????? 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
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#never not at it#aaaaaaand THIS is why plenty of us aren’t shocked by the royal revelations this week#bc we’ve grown up knowing quite a lot of them are physically incapable of recognising/acknowledging the bad of empire#and would instead rather dismiss criticism of empire through personal experience or historical accuracy as ‘generalisations’#this prob sounds stupid bc they’re all fictional but I’m mad bc#british people regularly excuse their racism xenophobia and imperial attitudes on lack of education about the empire and colonialism#and yet EVERY time someone from a commonwealth country or former colony point out something about british imperialism we’re met w this shit#this like IT’S IN THE PAST or GET OVER IT shit#which I’m also fully aware white people regularly do to non-white people 24/7 and as a white person I’m by no means trying to compare#or excuse white irish people from that bc we have our fair share of racists here too#I’m just trying to show how white brits will blame the school curriculum for their ignorance when the simple truth is plenty of them#don’t care/don’t wanna know and tell people who speak about any brit colonial activity that they’re generalising or bitter!!!#I really starting shaking when I saw each of these @ different times lol ANYWAY#michael collins didn’t die 4 me to allow myself 2 b gaslit by br*ts a week to paddy’s day#so let me go listen to some rebel songs to calm down#twilight#twilight renaissance#twilight revival#siobhán#carlisle cullen#irish coven#the cullens#the twilight saga#the twilight series#british imperialism#british colonialism#ireland#irish#*sorry for typos in tags I’m tired and angry lol
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