I'm mostly talking about white liberals in America, I'm not sure how liberals elsewhere talk. I imagine they're also horrible.
The liberals I know would either ignore other countries entirely or they'd gesture towards some idyllic concept of freedom, democracy, or bravery. They regard mass politics as possible in the face of how they view tyranny, but they'll mainly treat other nations as a performance piece for themselves. The people living in other places might as well be fictional characters treated on the same level as events from Star Wars. Everything is performance.
Liberals present as a good person because they have a Hong Kong or Ukraine flag on their car. They're a good person because they call Maduro a dictator. That's as far as their thought goes.
well you could tell them that road blockages are used by climate change activists in imperial core countries like Germany right now as a regular form of protest, and that the state responds by persecuting these activists as a criminal organization or even locking activists up pre-emptively for two weeks without trial because they may take part in such protests.
you could point them to :cool-zone: having happened less than three years ago, maybe then at least you could explain to them what it means when an event gets memory holed.
I'm mostly talking about white liberals in America, I'm not sure how liberals elsewhere talk. I imagine they're also horrible.
The liberals I know would either ignore other countries entirely or they'd gesture towards some idyllic concept of freedom, democracy, or bravery. They regard mass politics as possible in the face of how they view tyranny, but they'll mainly treat other nations as a performance piece for themselves. The people living in other places might as well be fictional characters treated on the same level as events from Star Wars. Everything is performance.
Liberals present as a good person because they have a Hong Kong or Ukraine flag on their car. They're a good person because they call Maduro a dictator. That's as far as their thought goes.
well you could tell them that road blockages are used by climate change activists in imperial core countries like Germany right now as a regular form of protest, and that the state responds by persecuting these activists as a criminal organization or even locking activists up pre-emptively for two weeks without trial because they may take part in such protests.
you could point them to :cool-zone: having happened less than three years ago, maybe then at least you could explain to them what it means when an event gets memory holed.