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!
I’ve seen racism reframed in a similar manner. It feels a bit sketchy
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.
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.
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.
Everyone remembers when the British Empire and Imperial Japan had their highlander-style “there can be only one!” moment to determine who got to keep calling themselves empire
Rapist who got raped is still a rapist.
No no those rapes cancel each other out
Exactly.
“By denying our oppressors their humanity, we seek to hide the oppressor within ourselves.”
- Contrapoints, maybe?
I don’t get the impression the people who’ve downvoted this have read the second part of the comment.
To be fair: there is an imperialism definition by a Russian guy that conveniently excludes Russian imperialism
its not imperialism or genocide when you thump a different type of bible while you’re doing it. Commies and tankies agree.
“I will fight the thing defined by big countries getting bigger by letting different big countries get bigger.”
Here’s a fun fact: Every country is west of something, because we live on a sphere. It’s just a matter of degree. I can go to New York from California by going west. It’ll just take longer.
irregularly shaped ellipsoid
Oblate spheroid.
Poorly peeled potato.
That’s the moons of mars.
The objectively correct answer
Check out Mr. Round Earth over here.
Spheroid propaganda.
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That has to be satire, right? No way is someone that dense.
Your instance is still federated with grad, isn’t it? Go take a look lol.
I really don’t want to.
Wowwwwwww…
Don’t you mean “I’d rather not” or do you want to be a grammar commie?
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.
As an idiot, I’m curious why Puerto Rico got lumped in with these other countries?
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!
It must be said that those imperialist eastern nations all have absolutely fire flags
@sovietfangirl
And into the trash that opinion goes.
Hot take: non-white people are often racist
“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.
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.
Ah, the ol’ can/may conundrum. Every English teacher’s favourite
I’d just say that people everywhere all quite often racist
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All people are racist. The westerners just got good at hiding it.
All these tankies are happy Trump is in power now, right?
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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Was anybody talking to you? No? So you’re just randomly telling on yourself then?
You totally don’t sound suspicious at all!
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Nice try Dmitry, I’m on to your Rusky tricks.
It’s so like westerners to appropriate the cultural innovations of the Assyrians and claim it as they’re own.
Username checks out.
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