• anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    15 hours ago

    White people are undeniably racist.

    But I believe the First-Second-Third World distinctions were originally politically based on whether a country was aligned with Western Capitalism-Soviet Union- or non-aligned, respectively. Definitely racist elements involved in condemning/couping USSR and the non-aligned countries though.

    I think people generally now mean to say Global South when they say that, which is more racially charged but also ultimately political-economic.