I will die on this hill

There's a trend among leftists to make communism look better by sanitizing it.

I find this horrifying. Literally every ex-Soviet I know has horrible trauma regarding the USSR. All of them passed this trauma on to their kids. (That's on top of their WWII trauma, mind you. That part of the world had been a trauma conga line for centuries.)

It's also unnecessary! I know the data is harder to find (because: propaganda), but capitalism has hurt and killed so many people!

I hate today

My father: only interacted with me in order to say abusive things and lecture me about his special interests.

My father-in-law: gave me a panic attack by guilt tripping me over the fact that I wasn't suitably subordinate when his wife got in my face and started yelling.

My maternal grandfather: rapist and child/wife beater.

My paternal grandfather: deliberately installed an inadequacy complex in his family in order to feel superior.

My step-great-grandfather, the only decent father in my ancestry: died in 1986, a couple of years before I was born.

Happy Father's Day to me, I guess.

Grrr!

I know it's been over a millennium at this point, but I still hold a grudge against the Christian church for destroying so much of my people's culture.

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Due to my family history, I have complicated feelings about having my race classified as white, but I recognize that I'm white enough to get at least some white privilege.

But this idea that I should take whiteness and use it to write over my ethnicity? Erase my ancestry and assimilate into a generic Anglo-Saxon soup? That can rot in hell.

Trying to distract myself from politics by thinking about abuse, this is an excellent plan, right?

My aunt broke up with her fiance/father of her second child because he was abusive to her older kid.

My mother - who, by the way, did not actually meet the guy - insists that her sister was exaggerating and "just looking for an excuse to dump him" to this day, almost forty years later.

But then again, what did I expect from a woman who thinks that trying to kill your own child is a totally normal, non-abusive thing to do?

Don't I also deserve little handmade crafts?

It really bums me out that there's no day specifically for nonbinary parents.

Observation

In the US, there's definitely a sort of collective belief that Nazis are a special form of evil, that the atrocities they committed are on like... a big evil pedestal compared to atrocities committed by Soviets, the Khmer Rouge, King Leopold II, or (really, I could keep going, I've spent a little too much time reading about genocide).

It is definitely a thing that confuses my relatives back home.