It’s always the patriarchal conquerors like the Ancient Romans or the Ancient Greeks that they idolize and never the people like, say, the Picts or the Celts or the Gaul that rebelled against the brutal Roman empire. It’s never the Scottish or the Irish heroes who fought back against the British Empire that followed in Rome’s footsteps. None of them probably even know who Boudica is.
Ironically, a lot of the stuff you could call “white culture” was burnt at the stake, banned, brutalized, and literally demonized by the Empires that chuds think are so civilized. A lot of pagan culture was lost to time, or warped by Roman ‘scholars’ for propaganda purposes. If they truly cared about their ‘culture’, then "Muh Christian trad wife’ would be seen as killing the identity of pagan women, rather than an aspiration.
But trad wife got the booba
None of them probably even know who Boudica is.
there was an infamous bnp “educational” video once that gave a mediocre recounting of her and the iceni’s exploits (ending with the godawful line “and boudica was WHITE!”) and they couldn’t even say her fucking name right
Oh god I remember that shit, they also invoked Henry VIII as a great white UK hero which is hilarious given that he was a lousy king who undermined the Kingdom of England’s position as a regional power with all of his bullshit. Not sure why they didn’t go for Elizabeth I who was a far more competent English leader from a right wing/establishment perspective. I guess they didn’t want to include too many women.
Of course, fascists are never going to be good at understanding history, it was around the same time that the BNP was sending out leaflets with a picture of a Spitfire on the cover - a Spitfire in Free Polish markings lmao.
Federici go brrr. There’s a reason that capitalism and its form of state derives purposefully from the Roman state. White culture was always constructed to lionize Roman sociocultural norms.
this is what makes her terfy turn so hard to understand. Caliban and the Witch does such a good job of analyzing the material origins of patriarchal and cisheteronormative relations that I struggle to wrap my head around how she missed the obvious conclusions of her own work. kill your heroes, I guess.
Good post, before the west colonized the world we had already been colonized by Rome and the church
We don’t even really know who the fuck we are anymore or where we came from and yet those ignorant white marble statue avatar dipshits are proud of this instead of sad, it’s pathetic
We don’t even really know who the fuck we are anymore or where we came from
i don’t really think there’s a “secret truth” or whatever to be learned. the traditions are destroyed and resurrecting them would be as illegitimate as modern hebrew. we “came from” the settler empire. there is no “we” in that historical sense, only the present and the culture of exploitation we reject.
Boudicca was a badass.
