(Note: this one is captioned RIP Dolores O'Riordan, the late lead singer of The Cranberries? You can hear her singing in the background of the video so I think this is a reaction to her death back in 2018? Her deathday isn't for another week.)
[Video starts with a black man asking "Are white people okay?"]
*jump cut to Polissa*
No! White people are not okay! *deep breath* We have been divorced all sense of culture [
even if we go into race construction of what makes a white person white- I remember debating with an European friend about whether or not the Sami were white because of their skin color- all white people period do not have collective language, religion, fashion, manners, mores, etc within their own communities? Families? Countries? Is she implying that Europeans lack any culture?] that is anything to do with outside of a church [
uhh].
*pause* *deep breath* But you go back 400 years and you find more Pagans than Christians. [
Where? Europe? Citation needed because I know that's total bollocks. The Crusades were in the 1000s-1200s (roughly) and Christianity was widespread before even that!] *side eyes* And that's because as Christianity ran through the countrysides of Europe, any [Pagan] culture that was left was wiped out! *a beep goes off that sounds like someone was posting a Facebook post* And what culture that did exist has now been demonized as superstition and folklore and fairy tales [
oh fun, this theory again].
*deep breath* See you have three waves of white people that came into the United States [
oh no]. You had the first wave, *deep breath* which was the indentured servants of Scotland [so they,
who first arrived in 1650, came before the
Vikings (possible, 1000s), the
Spanish (1493), the
French (1500s),
the English (1607 with a little place called Jamestown) and
the Dutch (1620s)? Impressive!]. The *pause, face wrinkles* The criminals, the people that weren't wanted. The Jacobites specifically were rounded up by the English king and thrown over there.
*deep breath* In the second wave, [
I'm going to try to control sperging since we know Polissa is saying mostly inaccurate information, but some things I cannot help but point out], was the religious zealots! *Dobby barks in the background* Looking for religious freedom from the Catholic Church [the Protestants as a whole were done with the Puritans's shit, too. Not only that, but some of the Puritains were kicked out of the Netherlands after the English kicked them out. Just saying.] *lip smack* *deep breath* And that's how you got the witch trials, telling everyone else how to act and behave [
The French and Germans, who did most of the European witch hunts, were predominantly Catholic and Protestant respectively. I don't know why she's so focused on Catholics right now when most of her non generic Christianity hate was for the Southern Baptist Church].
*deep breath* And then you have the third wave. *deep breath* The Irish immigrants. *tongue click* At one point in time, it was *pause, side eye, head shake* not a good thing to be an Irish person. [
That infamous Irish Do Not Apply ad was in exactly one newspaper] *deep breath* It was better to deny that you were Irish than to admit it.
*deep breath* So no, we're not okay. Because once you get to a certain point in history, after about the 1960s, everybody is mingled! [i
s Polissa saying integration bad?] *side eyes* There's no definition between what places we used to come from! We have no culture outside of churches! So the church has become our culture and that's become just as toxic! [
I guess Polissa does not know that non white people can be Christian and also go to church? And they are often even more devout or at least more likely to attend than whites?] Because now it's trying to control the government! [
In God We Trust]
*noise* So no, we're not okay! *lip smack* We're trying to find our way in a very dark world. *lip smack* We're trying to make amends for what we have done in the past, or what our ancestors have done [
Polissa would be torn a new asshole by Europeans that conquered, enslaved, and raped each other]. Not what we have done specifically. But try not to cause anymore damage in the process of it! *cat meowing in background*
*head shake* We're just trying to figure out how to become human again in a way [
jfc I think that's almost as bad as "genetically linked cousins"] *more cat meowing* Who we are as people. And until then, *deep breath* it's gonna be a rocky rocky road.
