This post is interesting, because it is going “csa/nazi victories are racist, what if something Woke™ happened instead, like a native american victory,” but the reblogger preemptively notes the problem with it, that is, the writers would portray the natives as being just as bad. Such a portrayal is characterized as racist. This is dumb, but it does gesture at a point: no well-realized Native American victory scenario could please the kinds of people calling for one. The Aztecs and the Inca were both very unpleasant empires that engaged in human sacrifice and were defeated in part because their Spanish conquerors had ready-made allies in the form of the tribes they had subjugated and mistreated. The history of a native-run North and South America would be a history of emergent states fighting and conquering both their less sophisticated neighbors and each other. To say nothing of the fact that no polity grows into a global superpower without doing horrible, horrible things. All the great global empires–Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the US, Russia, Germany, Japan–gained their power through violence, at home and abroad. An Inca superpower, an Aztec superpower, a Mississippian superpower: all these countries would gain and keep their power through the exact same imperialistic methods Europe and its settler states are denounced for. To explore a scenario in which the indigenous populace of the Americas get to run their continents more or less unmolested is to call attention to the fact that this means that while some people are going to win (ex. the Inca), other people are still going to lose (ex. the Mapuche). It is to acknowledge that scalping wasn’t just something inflicted on white settlers, that the difference between oppressor and oppressed is a matter of historical circumstance, that one world’s Poor Marginalized People of Color are another’s Imperialist Oppressors Living on Stolen Land, that a noble savage is only noble because he does not have the power to be wicked, and that, in gaining civilization, he gains that power. And that’s all a bit too much to handle for someone who thinks “I’m gonna write a story about members of the underground resistance in a world where Nazi Germany won” is racist.