I mean I think it’s just that libs understand deep down the 3rd world is colonized and undeveloped due to western domination and resource extraction and financial exploitation. They feel some guilt about this but it’s suppressed because they need their treats and they aren’t willing to give material sacrifices to their quality of life to equalize the world.
Some libs don’t understand this though, and instead just accept a softer version of the reactionary explanation for the undeveloped global south: intelligence and industriousness are racial or culture traits and some societies are superior and deserve to live better.
Those are really the only 2 ways a lib can see it. Either extreme guilt they are unwilling and unable to face, or a nice comforting lie that involves accepting the fascist worldview partially or wholly. The libs have a moral aversion to the fascist worldview but not a epistemological one, basically they find it bad taste but don’t disagree that it is true.
You can see the appeal to a lib of finally giving up their guilt, anxiety and contradictory worldview and just giving in to the fascists
I mean I think it’s just that libs understand deep down the 3rd world is colonized and undeveloped due to western domination and resource extraction and financial exploitation. They feel some guilt about this but it’s suppressed because they need their treats and they aren’t willing to give material sacrifices to their quality of life to equalize the world.
Some libs don’t understand this though, and instead just accept a softer version of the reactionary explanation for the undeveloped global south: intelligence and industriousness are racial or culture traits and some societies are superior and deserve to live better.
Those are really the only 2 ways a lib can see it. Either extreme guilt they are unwilling and unable to face, or a nice comforting lie that involves accepting the fascist worldview partially or wholly. The libs have a moral aversion to the fascist worldview but not a epistemological one, basically they find it bad taste but don’t disagree that it is true.
You can see the appeal to a lib of finally giving up their guilt, anxiety and contradictory worldview and just giving in to the fascists