We've been treated to a lot of "I talk" meaning the "I" is very insistent on what pronouns we use to refer to it.
However the pronoun that interests me more is "we". There's this silent "we" I often want to demur from being any part of, yet polite conversation dictates that the speaker has a right to its "we" usage. We're not to question it.
Where this linguistic tension pops up in its most pithy form is in the American idiom "what we whiteman?" I often hear myself thinking this when some self-flagellant testifies to the war crimes of his tribe. "We bombed them anyway". With the tacit assumption of shared guilt. That's where the arrogance comes in.
I'm sure y'all know what I mean. Sometimes one just needs a safe space to not get involved in all these "we" groups out there, that want to just assume you're their partner in arms.
