• Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.net
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    CFR’s Obadare argued that, while many Africans were rightly frustrated by the “lethargy” of the continent’s democratic systems, Traoré’s emerging popularity was “far more sinister”.

    “There is this knee-jerk and robotic anti-westernism that means once someone shows up to say they hate the west, we automatically believe in that person.”

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      “Africans are robots that must be programmed to dislike the people that enslaved and colonized them.”

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        It is a reductionist cliche to hate the people who have exploited and oppressed you for centuries. Be original, people!

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      What this stupid fuck fails to see is not only is it past and present but the future of this continent is FUCKED. FUCKED! You know why? Because a climate catastrophe will absolutely devastate this continent and the angelic westerners he wants suck off are largely responsible. Fuuuuuuuuuuck offffff

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      “I can’t believe the people that have been brutally exploitated for centuries don’t like their oppressors!! Clearly it’s just their programming to hate the west, there’s definitely no legitimate reason they would be anti-western!”