You also have to remember that neoliberal regimes in the developing world that plundered billions of their own country’s wealth and parked them overseas while instituting harsh labor laws to crush wages and living standards in their own country
i never forget this.
are also the same affluent upper middle class people who are most aligned with Western values (like you know, Western neoclassical economics and their IMF austerity)
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and enjoyed Western liberal culture, including support for progressive LGBT rights.
this isn't "western culture" considering "western culture" is still frothing at the mouth with LGBTphobia. We just had a mass shooting this week. Don't Ask Don't Tell existed until very recently. Gay marriage didn't happen until this century. Anti-sodomy laws are still on the books in the USA. Deliberate conflation of LGBT people with pedophiles is a constant problem. Just because :porky-happy: uses LGBT rights as a fake justification for imperialism doesn't mean LGBT rights has ever been the tip of the spear of western imperialism. I'm tired of imperialists using human rights as a thin justification for what they do because it causes this brain poisoned thinking. If America is falsely claiming to bomb brown people on behalf of LGBT it doesn't justify mistreating LGBT as a response to western imperialism. European Colonialism during the age of exploration saw vast purges of indigenous LGBT in the very same regions where domestic conservative forces now claim that LGBT is some kind of western import. LGBT rights isn't erasure of indigenous culture, and it isn't western imperialism. It is merely an excuse used by Western imperialists to justify their behavior. I used Marx in China as an example for a reason. Why is that not seen as Western influence but LGBT is? It seems like a selective justification of bigotry rather than a real argument.
i never forget this.
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this isn't "western culture" considering "western culture" is still frothing at the mouth with LGBTphobia. We just had a mass shooting this week. Don't Ask Don't Tell existed until very recently. Gay marriage didn't happen until this century. Anti-sodomy laws are still on the books in the USA. Deliberate conflation of LGBT people with pedophiles is a constant problem. Just because :porky-happy: uses LGBT rights as a fake justification for imperialism doesn't mean LGBT rights has ever been the tip of the spear of western imperialism. I'm tired of imperialists using human rights as a thin justification for what they do because it causes this brain poisoned thinking. If America is falsely claiming to bomb brown people on behalf of LGBT it doesn't justify mistreating LGBT as a response to western imperialism. European Colonialism during the age of exploration saw vast purges of indigenous LGBT in the very same regions where domestic conservative forces now claim that LGBT is some kind of western import. LGBT rights isn't erasure of indigenous culture, and it isn't western imperialism. It is merely an excuse used by Western imperialists to justify their behavior. I used Marx in China as an example for a reason. Why is that not seen as Western influence but LGBT is? It seems like a selective justification of bigotry rather than a real argument.
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i understand now, thanks for clearing that up