The Western nations look down on the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and believe that they can do whatever they want and that...
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    Moral superiority is precisely what’s used to justify all the interventions the west does around the world. The notion that western society is the most enlightened society means that it’s just to eradicate any deviation from western ideals, by force if necessary. It’s for other people’s own good in the end.

  • ColonelRevolution@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    What do people even like about the “values” represented by “The West”? I was never disillusioned by this, even long before being interested in communism. The US is the pinnacle of hypocrisy and violence and it’s obvious for anyone who tries to learn from anything more than pro-US media.

    Of course, I’ve heard that even though there is false propaganda in the US/Europe, the Russian, Chinese and other propaganda is much worse, that there is only violence and lies - but what is it if not racism? There are countless examples of violence at home, you have to be blind to not see it.

    I mean mostly the US that I’m not a citizen of, but there is similar mentality in my country, too.

    Why assume the whole world is wrong and only WE have anything that resembles democracy, that only WE have the right to decide what is good and what is bad, that only WE are advanced culture and all others are barbarians, willing to jump on us if we don’t keep the whole world in check? The imperialism mentality is truly horrible.

    Eh…

      • ColonelRevolution@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        Let’s not forget that major North American movies get funding from the military only if they paint the US in somewhat positive light.

        It’s a powerful state propaganda that works on exporting their “values” into the outside world - this cultural imperialism gets ingrained in our imagination and most people never get to truly understand that. To this day I can’t fully shake off some positive associations with the US that were put in my brain since choldhiod childhood with the help of US media. It’s disgusting, really.

    • Black AOC@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      133·
      2 years ago

      Amerika is a settler-apartheid abomination, that frankly? I wish the country’s ‘ideological enemies’ didn’t have a ‘we’re not going to meddle’ stance. I get why they do, but… Goddamn, do these crackers deserve some comeuppance. Comeuppance for their exceptionalism. Comeuppance for their fraud and lies. Comeuppance for what they do to their subjects-of-empire day in, and day out. Genuinely at a point where my Marxism is saved for the New Afrikans, and the Amerikan Indigenous. I’m not even considering trying to put settlers on our wagon when the shit hits the fan, 'cause where I stand right now, they do not deserve that hand.