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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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.
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.
To be fair: there is an imperialism definition by a Russian guy that conveniently excludes Russian imperialism
"I will fight the thing defined by big countries getting bigger by letting different big countries get bigger."
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.
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!
@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
It's so like westerners to appropriate the cultural innovations of the Assyrians and claim it as they're own.
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.
It must be said that those imperialist eastern nations all have absolutely fire flags