• supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    That's just an excuse for western audiences.

    A thought I have had lately is: I don't think anyone believes in human shields and that Lebanese people have missiles in their Apts. They just need plausible deniability for their racism when they take joy in brown people being killed by the thousands. The contemporary racist is a coward that hides his true desires.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      They just need plausible deniability for their racism when they take joy in brown people being killed by the thousands. The contemporary racist is a coward that hides his true desires.

      Well said, it's like that one quote

      the process of Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois {Global North's labor aristocrat} proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming