Reveen
Castro-Trudeauist
Look, all this discourse is like whatever. My only agenda here is knocking over Christian Churches for their gold like medieval Al Capone.
I mean, from a social justice perspective I personally don't really care? Because it's not like this is colonialism against an actual modern oppressed group having whitewashed colonialism done against them, it's white European Christians, they're fine.
Them being the targets of video game violence just does not ping my fucked-up radar the same way blowing away brown people in COD does. It's the same reason I'm fine with Amon Amarth songs about burning down Christian villages. It's nowhere near, like, actual Nazi metal.
Also, I'm not a fan of throwing around the word colonialism in these cases as if you can just neatly draw a line between the European colonialism of the last few centuries, and the repeating cycle of migratory invasion, subjugation and assimilation that's been a dominant fixture of European history. It's the kind of erasure of specificity and context that allows Irish-American shitheads to go "The Irish were slaves too!" to get one over on black people.
Especially considering it's both what put the Saxons there in the first place and the descendants of those Norse settles were victims of wholesale mass murder at the hands of William the Conqueror in the next cycle. And especially considering how the English can be fucking shameless about whitewashing their own colonialism.
I really wish I had a gif of that old Mike Tyson's Punch-Out parody of Mario going "I'll allow it", because that's how I feel here.
Your settlement is then expanded and built up entirely with goods derived from raiding – specifically raiding churches and monasteries (you literally do not seem to be able to resource raid other types of settlements, stick a pin in that, we're coming back to it too).
Both the ancient order plot and the whitewashed colonialism elicit mixed feelings from me.
I mean, from a social justice perspective I personally don't really care? Because it's not like this is colonialism against an actual modern oppressed group having whitewashed colonialism done against them, it's white European Christians, they're fine.
Them being the targets of video game violence just does not ping my fucked-up radar the same way blowing away brown people in COD does. It's the same reason I'm fine with Amon Amarth songs about burning down Christian villages. It's nowhere near, like, actual Nazi metal.
Also, I'm not a fan of throwing around the word colonialism in these cases as if you can just neatly draw a line between the European colonialism of the last few centuries, and the repeating cycle of migratory invasion, subjugation and assimilation that's been a dominant fixture of European history. It's the kind of erasure of specificity and context that allows Irish-American shitheads to go "The Irish were slaves too!" to get one over on black people.
Especially considering it's both what put the Saxons there in the first place and the descendants of those Norse settles were victims of wholesale mass murder at the hands of William the Conqueror in the next cycle. And especially considering how the English can be fucking shameless about whitewashing their own colonialism.
I really wish I had a gif of that old Mike Tyson's Punch-Out parody of Mario going "I'll allow it", because that's how I feel here.