whats wrong with books

[ID: Still shots from a documentary. It shows stereotypical representations of indigenous people from different visual media (like black-and-white cartoons, live-actions, or coloured animations) where they are depicted as aggressive, foolish or other. An indigenous man speaks to the audience, subtitles provided: "The best way to kill people is to dehumanize them, right? To make them into caricatures. Whether it's Peter Pan, whether it's John Ford's The Searchers, which is considered not just the archetype of Western movies, but one of the great American films. And this is a classic Hollywood trope. That makes invasion look like self-defense. You know, we weren't obsessed with the United States the way that the United States was obsessed with us." End ID]

maybe it's me being a brown woman but i can't comprehend how & why people treat having a racist phase as a teenager as smth okay or a norm

it's def not good but treating people who got better like they're still shitty people is a good way to make them turn back into shitty people