I thought this was self explanatory since you guys mainline a lot of starving African kids in your mainstream media atleast, but apparently contrarianism has meant Chapos going the full circle and denying that it is actually even worse there.
Sincerely, someone in the global south. If you disagree, post below, I have a lot of time to explain.
Adding an edit to copy paste a comment where I replied in terms of what I mean
The amount of precariousness someone poor in the first world might face is not really comparable to what poverty in the south looks like. Rule of law is absent, the government is also absent, so while the social security net may be failing or too small in the first world– it’s entirely absent in the third. There aren’t enough teachers or doctors even for the people who can afford them. Children are born into indentured labour, by which I mean they are born to work off their parents debt, usually working from the age of 4 onwards. While we are all comrades, under the same boot of the bourgeoisie, remember that the workers of the third world may view the way that first world workers live in poverty as basically the good life.
I think that most of this contrarianism is push back against the widespread idea that the image of starving children is universally representative of the experience of all 3rd world countries. It is important to dispel this image as it is a barrier in getting people in the 1st world to empathize with the 3rd world instead of merely sympathizing . Obviously denying material reality is bad but I personally haven't really seen anyone on chapo engaging in this strain of denialism myself.
Thread by glimmer_twin descended into this. I don't understand why their needs to be pushback, why can't you empathise with imagining, I'm skipping breakfast to save money, while people in global south eat salt with flatbread most of the year.