Joe M

With all due respect, White Europeans founded the USA and Canada, they were never multicultural countries until people decided we owe it to the world to open our borders. This entire narrative based on Western guilt was part of demoralizing White Euros and making them feel racist when history was based on conquest. Globally, tribes were in local conflict over land and resources, Africans, Arabs, Europeans, Native Indians, at all scales, the defeated foe was either enslaved or murdered. You either fight to survive, and work hard to develop, or you're at the mercy of whoever is willing to fight. Africans were selling their own to White Euros on the coast because they didn't have the immune system to die to disease or the numbers to push deep inland. There were multiple slave trades at scale but only the transatlantic slave trade is highlighted, despite the US only having about ~400k slaves, and ~600k white euros lost their lives in a war to free them and end that market. The barbary pirates enslaved over 1m white Euros, the Trans Saharan slave trade existed before the rest, and the same region still practices slavery. The Islamic Ottoman Empire participated in murder, slavery, rape, and pedophilia as per their 'timeless example of a perfect being'. 90% of Native Americans died to disease and its treated as intentional, a genocide, but the Ottomans genocided over 1.5m Armenians in the 1910s by casting them out into a desert to rot. System of a Down made 2 songs about it, 'P.L.U.C.K.' (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers) and 'Unholy Mountains'. They also genocided Greek and Assyrians a bit later, and went on to sell 400+ tons of bones for a profit. It only ended when we beat them in WW1. Identity politics weren't an issue in the USA until we opened the doors to people that never contributed to building or defending our countries. Instrumental and motivated reasoning, deflection, whataboutism, false equivalences, double entrendes, logical fallacies, emotionally charged rhetoric, deference to authority, projection are all common parts of this. Critical theory was used to split everyone based on various classes and metrics to turn people against each other and split it into the overall team of 'us vs them'. Now you end up with this on a political scale, where its no longer about whats best for the country because its filled with people that never contributed towards building or defending anything meaningful which is why they try to escape the product of their culture. All the while, they enjoy our language, our institutions, our healthcare, our education systems, our prosperity, our freedom of speech, our freedom of religion, while selectively demonizing the history that built all of those things. The fact that you're concerned about white people participating in identity politics signals to me that you're worried that the entire narrative of being a 'multicultural republic' is going to come to an end, because it isn't. White Europeans were the primary immigrants at scale through the developmental years with relatively small proportions of others. It wasn't until recently that the same instrumental and motivated reasoning was leveraged to conflate White Euro immigrants with all immigrants to act like everyone had a part of its history. It's almost as if people that have nothing to do with the history of something, who actively try to escape the product of their cultures, have everything to gain by making theirs a part of the one they want to live in. All of this shit is over with. Done.