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This is social eugenics, the same strategy the US government sought to use against Native Americans at the end of the 19th century. The government sought to forbid the practice of their religion and the speaking of their languages, and insisted they be "educated" in English and white American religion and customs. They sought to eradicate Native Americans by destroying everything that made them a distinct people. It was deliberate, it was malignant, it was not an effort of "ignorance."
I look at the Almier and I see in them the exact same attitude that was responsible for the acts of genocide and repression against my ancestors. I refuse to hold them harmless due to ignorance. It's not ignorance to believe that people who are not like you are inferior to you. There's a different word for that.
"Western Imperialism" happens to be what people think of because in the modern world it's the one that WON but the history was recorded openly, so it's right on display. But the practice of erasing a foe goes back thousands of years.
I wouldn't worry to much about it. The re-education story point in Gratz is less about condemning acts in the past and more about not lying to ourselves. I strongly believe that well we should learn from the past, it is more important to be concerned with what we do in the present. This is part of the reason why I don't to do many stories about past events, and If I do one it is normally with the framing of how those events are effecting the today aspect.
So don't sweat the stir.