Least historically illiterate tankie
Least historically illiterate tankie
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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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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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Rapist who got raped is still a rapist.
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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
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"By denying our oppressors their humanity, we seek to hide the oppressor within ourselves."
- Contrapoints, maybe?
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I don't get the impression the people who've downvoted this have read the second part of the comment.
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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 will fight the thing defined by big countries getting bigger by letting different big countries get bigger."
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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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Hot take: non-white people are often racist
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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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I'd just say that people everywhere all quite often racist
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@sovietfangirl
And into the trash that opinion goes.
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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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It must be said that those imperialist eastern nations all have absolutely fire flags
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Username checks out.
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