#ive been enjoying cowboys while ignoring all the shitty stuff about their history

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Your brain ever just go quiet

#random thoughts #so i realize this is a white people thing #and ive heard of it before but ive never really internalized it until now #you guys ever realize just how many of your hobbies are baked in the colonizer mindset??? #like minecraft and shit like that #open world games where you conquer worlds #there's like a much better video explaining this on youtube #its by folding ideas and its about colonization in sandbox gamws #but like??? #ive just realized ive been doing the same thing with cowboys #ive been enjoying cowboys while ignoring all the shitty stuff about their history #like indigenous genocide both physical and cultural #and like ive done research on that before #but ive never connected them in my head until now #how much of why i like cowboys is because of the colonizer mindset??? #racism