Failing to have a coherent understanding of how imperialism works. A lot of westerners seem to think they live in developed countries developed purely by their own industry, while not realizing how financial capital continues to plunder the global south.
A close friend (bless his heart) asked me if I “really think China is more free than, say, France?” when talking about things like freedom of the press and journalistic integrity. I’ve seen a lot of that recently, that because we live in a country which had been once considered to be “socialistic” that the stories we are told and things we have been taught wouldn’t align as much with what global and local capitalists want us to believe is true. At one point I remember him critizising me for using the term “wage slave” (which I used jokingly but w/e) because “none of us here are actual wage slaves”. Because you apparently have to be an Asian child in a Nike sweatshop to actually be opressed by capitalism. My brother, no-one is free until all are free.
“none of us here are actual wage slaves”
Bro is just cosplaying as one
“freedom” is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric
I mean, france is more free when it comes to the freedom of the press
citation needed
That article no longer exists, for one, secondly, aljezeera is quite biased when it comes to certain topics, notably palestine, thirdly, I see plaestine flags in every goddamn french protest, and multiple political parties and news sites are pro-palestine.
It’s odd I don’t see a chinese political party or news site denouncing the treatment of the uyghurs or defending the hong kong activists.
Like come on.
These are the facts that are known to everyone born and living under Western Imperialism, because communism doesn’t work because communism can’t work because the Western Imperialists told us so! How can you be so naive and stupid to believe anything else? Do you not know?
That’s what you sound like, bootlicker.
What do you mean by “the article no longer exists”? What is an unbiased news outlet? What is an unbiased view of Palestine? What is the response of the Fr*nch state to “every goddamn french protest”? Which political parties and news sites in Fr*nce are Pro Palestine and why might that be deemed a problem? What is the “treatment of Uyghurs” that is denouncable and what are the Hong Kong activists doing that need to be defended? And defending against who?
And why are you lib?
What do you mean by “the article no longer exists”?
I get a 404 on that link, might be a me issue though.
What is an unbiased news outlet? What is an unbiased view of Palestine?
What I meant to say was that site gives qatar’s views on everything, and have a vested interest in making it look like the west is completely unable to recognize gaza and such
What is the response of the Frnch state to “every goddamn french protest”?
It is permitted, and the right to strike is strongly protected, unlike in china. Under the current administration the gendarmerie often, to put it bluntly, sends tear gas to scatter certain protestors, which is bad, but nobody is arrested unless they commit an actual crime, such as setting a car on fire.
Which political parties and news sites in Frnce are Pro Palestine and why might that be deemed a problem?
I don’t see why you think i think it’s a problem, but off the top of my head la france insoumise is a party that loudly supports palestine in the assemblee nationale, and liberation.fr and lemonde are news sites that are pro-palestine.
What is the “treatment of Uyghurs” that is denouncable
Forced labour, concentration camps and mass sterilization maybe?
Hong Kong activists doing that need to be defended?
They were protesting the erosion of Hong Kongs relative sovereignty within china, and were violently beaten down by police with batons, water guns and tear gas, journalists were forced to include more anti-protester viewpoints and press freedom was further limited following the incident. This is in Hong Kong btw, which ranks higher on free press indexes than china proper. Something that made the news in the west was china pressuring blizzard to ban a player who spoke out in support of the protestors from their tournaments.
And defending against who?
The government.
And why are you lib?
Someone can be both anti-china and not a liberal. I am notably not a fan of dictatorships and imperialism, even if it’s branded as socialist.
oh, somehow it’s georestricted? dafuq… Anyways better links/sources are available in the other reply.
What I meant to say was that site gives qatar’s views on everything, and have a vested interest in making it look like the west is completely unable to recognize gaza and such
But the Western nations, who engineered the settler-colony currently occupying Palestine, is incapable of recognizing Palestine. All the recent news about the West recognizing Palestine aren’t actually in any way meaningful when A) they’ve propped up and maintained the settler-colony for decades and continue to do so, while also recognizing the Euroanglo-Zionazi settler-colony that they themselves manufactured and B) the recognition itself is under the condition that Hamas is dissolved or anything to that effect.
No research, no right to speak.
Tell us exactly where Al Jazeera is wrong, tell us exactly what an unbiased news outlet is like and what an unbiased view of Palestine is supposed to be. No research, no right to speak.
nobody is arrested unless they commit an actual crime [in Fr*\nce]
Is using the word “intifida” a criminal act and therefore should be followed up with an arrest?
I don’t know how you claim to see Pro Palestine protests and activism but don’t even know half the shit that the Fr*\nch state carries out under the banner of “protecting democracy”, and also somehow have the guts to claim China doesn’t have the conception of Right to Protest. No research, no right to speak.
liberation.fr and lemonde are news sites that are pro-palestine
These “news sites” use the terms “war on Gaza” and “Israel-Hamas War/Conflict” to pretend as if it’s a playing-level field of two equally matching opposing militaries and to downplay genocide. They are also owned by bougies whose shared material interest is keeping the settler-colony alive. No research, no right to speak.
Citations needed on the Hong Kong stuff. Championing universalizing ideals of “both the West and China are equally imperialistic and bad” is a reaction so meek, so infantile, that it doesn’t actually ideologically and materially go against Western hegemony or imperialism. Therefore, by also considering the other things you’ve opined, it makes you a lib.
No research, no right to speak.
Any of them indexes would certainly have France higher than China
If indicators or labels are used to rank Certified Bad Countries at the bottom (read: US State Department stamped list of countries tha the US is threatened by) and white countries at the top, then surely something somewhere has gone amiss, no?
Literally all of these rankings are created by Western imperial countries, whose economies are held up by robbing the freedoms of the Global South, that continue to uphold one of their many sacred democratic rituals of suppressing Pro-Palestinian liberation protests, and then some.
- Pro-Palestine activists are under attack in Europe
- Censorship in Europe: Major Palestinian news channels banned on Telegram
- Police send file on British independent journalist Richard Medhurst to Crown Prosecution Service
- Switzerland releases, deports Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah
- Louisiana immigration judge orders Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria
“Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person”
Paraphrasing, but:
- “Truth does not exist, only opinions, and they’re all equally valid.”
- “Morality is fundamentally relative.” (It follows from the former, I guess.)
- “Every tribe/culture has always been/remains equally brutal, bloodthirsty, hedonistic, nihilistic, imperialistic and selfishly amoral.”
- “There are no differences between the sexes besides the physical ones.” (And even that one is denied at times, for instance when it comes to transexual athletes)
- “Love, making a lifetime commitment to your partner and raising kids are not (nor should they be) of major relevance in people’s lives.” (And if you even mention it you’re a control freak, limiting women’s freedom and whatnot)
- “You gotta take care of yourself first and foremost!” (the Divine and the collective come second and third, if they’re thought of at all, to the self, and only the self is truly worthy of attention)
Crocs
anything that implies they’ve only learned European and US history (e.g. discounting the global technological contributions of Asia and Africa)
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
Okay I’ll bite. So the asian-african industrial revolution?
The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago
Cool. Seriously!
But if it didn’t change history (did they even genocide??! /s ) then we won’t learn it in base school I guess.
I don’t really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?
“immigration is why our lives are getting worse”
Very clear indicator that someone has barely attempted to understand how the world works
Totally buying the touristy theme park version of whatever other culture. No, the people at the resort don’t actually think you’re great. No, tripping with a self-proclaimed shaman who charges a month’s local wage to resolve your mommy issues is not how the locals do mysticism.
Does the self-proclaimed shaman actually resolve mommy issues though? Asking for a friend.
Thinking China is the same as it was 10-30 years ago and that Chinese products can’t have superior quality.
We’ve reached a point where the US doesn’t even know how to manufacture some of the stuff China can.
They literally own the means of production
They literally own the workers
I’ve recently been getting some stupidly high-quality stuff from China for insanely good prices.
Essentially, I’ve been buying stuff from Walmart that has been marked down over $100. What I think is happening is no-name Chinese companies try to make a high quality product and sell it for a premium, but then nobody buys it because of the reputation no-name Chinese companies have. Then, they still need to sell their inventory so we can get great products at great prices.
These bluetooth headphones from a company I’ve never heard on straight up shit on the Sennheisers I used to have that cost significantly more.
It’s more that China already produces so much of what, say, Statesians consume. US-based companies offshore production and sell domestically at higher prices, but if you go straight to the manufacturers, you can get closer to the prices the US-based companies are already buying them for. These products are often made at the same factories, even, but don’t have the US branding, that’s about it.
“We need to help African kids!”
These often don’t know a single African country besides “South Africa”
Literally anything MAGA says
“$1 million isn’t a lot of money.”
That could be rich people from anywhere.
“If your poor its because you didn’t try hard enough”
Even in the west that one doesn’t stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share
Yeah that one is less a ‘westernism’ and more a ‘1%er-ism’
Another one I recently had to proove to someone that white people are payed more than other races.
Romanticising armed revolution.
Pretty common around the world IME
Yeah. Places actually in armed conflict don’t like it. Afterwards, history gets rewritten as mythology.
