• ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Ironic, the hogs make up the whole white man's burden about "civilizing the savages", but it looks like white americans are the savages that need to be civilized.

    China, your experience with handling Tibet is needed.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      it looks like white americans are the savages that need to be civilized

      :astronaut-1:

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That was always projection. Even the cannibalism accusation shit was mostly just a projection of English dudes who kept getting lost at sea and eating the crew

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If aliens had shown up to earth around 1400 CE and only wanted to speak with representatives of the most developed nations, they would have skipped western Europeans entirely. The Chinese, Indians, Aztecs, Arabs, some African nations, maybe the Byzantines, they'd get invited. But not western Europeans, that place was a backwater.