I think part of this fundamentally comes from a collective amnesia / deliberate forgetting about the fact that America is European. Yes, latinidad does need less American meddling, but also, American meddling is just the current formation of European meddling. Yes, white anglophones should not casually police oppressed people’s use of latinates, but at the same time, I have no problem pissing off a whole bunch of white Cuban exiles in Miami. There’s a lot of nuance, and it’s thoughtful to not engage when you don’t feel you don’t have a grasp of that nuance. It’s commendable. I would just caution against the trap of characterizing resistance to European imperialism as a form of imperialism, even if it comes from white USians.
I think part of this fundamentally comes from a collective amnesia / deliberate forgetting about the fact that America is European. Yes, latinidad does need less American meddling, but also, American meddling is just the current formation of European meddling. Yes, white anglophones should not casually police oppressed people’s use of latinates, but at the same time, I have no problem pissing off a whole bunch of white Cuban exiles in Miami. There’s a lot of nuance, and it’s thoughtful to not engage when you don’t feel you don’t have a grasp of that nuance. It’s commendable. I would just caution against the trap of characterizing resistance to European imperialism as a form of imperialism, even if it comes from white USians.