• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    Does this image cause cognitive dissonance? Don’t worry. We simply redefine the word imperialism to make it definitionally not inclusive of these countries. Problem solved and it definitely won’t make us sound like lunatics to normal people!

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        TBH, redefining racism as “prejudice plus power” in an academic setting is way more useful, otherwise most “anti-racism” scolars would be researching the negative effects of PoC making fun of unseasoned food.

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          That does make sense, but it’s just that some try to redefine it in regular conversations which has the exact same behaviour be either racism or not racism, depending on who says it and who is the recipient. And that just makes it weird, it goes against the common definition.

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      There is a not-invalid point here: that current global imperial structures are set up to benefit the West, so it is a bit weird to call someone an imperialist when they’re on the receiving end of it, a target of imperialism.

      But of course the same state can be both a perpetrater and victim of imperialism in different arenas or on different scales. Countries are big enough to be both one thing and it’s complete opposite at the same time.

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    To be fair: there is an imperialism definition by a Russian guy that conveniently excludes Russian imperialism

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      its not imperialism or genocide when you thump a different type of bible while you’re doing it. Commies and tankies agree.

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    I’m sorry liberals, but this is true. Politics only has two sides: America, and communism. And if you won’t support AES states like Russia, China, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Puerto Rico, then you’re an American neoliberal.

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      As an idiot, I’m curious why Puerto Rico got lumped in with these other countries?

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        Puerto Rico is a socialist utopia and about as far from USA imperialist ideology as you can get. I mean, just listen to the name, it’s so nonwhite!

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      “Often” is a bit too generalising for me. Non-white people can be racist, that’s true, just as white people can. Any race has good and bad people.

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        Originally I wrote “can” but that sounded like it was giving permission to be racist. Nobody should be classifying individuals based on their race. Bigotry is always bad - just because you’re in the minority doesn’t excuse you from the standards we set for everyone.

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      All people are racist. The westerners just got good at hiding it.

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    It’s so like westerners to appropriate the cultural innovations of the Assyrians and claim it as they’re own.

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      Some of them are probably Russian bots and prop anyone regardless of tankies or MAGA, so long as the polarisation destabilises the West.

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        Yes I admit I’m a russian troll. I hang out with vladimir and we’re gonna shove caviar in my butthole while we shoot ak47 to the sky and play the balalaika

        How racist can you be lmao. Not everybody who disagree with you is a paid actor or a bot, idiot