This week I was posting something about post World War 2 and how multiple imperialist powers gave up their overseas holdings, and I very nearly typed about how all of these countries just voluntarily did it. But I was posting about France and Algeria, so I knew that couldn't be true, so I looked up the process of decolonization and of course I had basically just about regurgitated some weak ass History Channel noble white folk nonsense about how the magnanimous West just let Asia and Africa roam free after WW2.

What stupid shit have you caught yourself doing or saying recently?

  • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Two years ago when I was way more of a dumb lib, I said the Xi/ winnie the pooh joke to my girlfriend's cousin, while we were visiting Taiwan.

    I cringe every day.

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'd probably fall off a cliff after that, you are a far stronger person than I.

    • Will2Live [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Lol I'm pretty sure a lot of Taiwanese people hate Xi and make similar jokes

      • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Absolutely, which is what I was banking on at the time, but looking back I feel like it was kind of a classic dumb american thing to say.