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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

a lot of people that call themselves leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books

Honestly, (aside from the racist framing) if you follow these rules you'll probably be on the correct side of history 99% of the time

[–] axont@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"culturally underdeveloped" has got to be the most liberal way of saying something racist I've ever heard. They might as well just come out and say savages or barbarians. How does this framework even operate? The USA is supposedly culturally developed? The only country that has dropped atom bombs on civilians and has the largest prison population? Ok.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

Cultural Development Nukes

[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

"culturally underdeveloped" has got to be the most liberal way of saying something racist I've ever heard.

It's basically the same as 19th century liberal racism. White Man's Burden and so on

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Barbarian/savages"

"Culturally underdeveloped"

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

culturally undeveloped people

My hitler-detector is emitting the Kill Bill siren

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And of course, then they immediately hide behind LGBT and women's rights when someone says "hey, that sounds a little racist"

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Their predecessors were perfectly happy to criminalize homosexuality and chemically castrate Alan Turing, all while saying "well at least we don't practice ritual cannibalism like those foreign savages."

Meanwhile THEIR predecessors were ritually grinding up and snorting mummies at parties waited on by veritable slaves. It's bullshit excuses and racism all the way down. It always just boils down to "well at least we don't do (thing we were doing quite recently until better people forcibly stopped us)".

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not just that, go back further and Europe had a centuries long fad of using ground up human skulls and other body parts as medicine, the mummies were just the tail end of it. Maybe they'll even bring it back to treat the King's prostate so he can die stuffed full of dead people like the last King Charles did.

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 41 points 10 months ago

"Cultural Development" is when capitalist think tanks place you high on their country rankings.

[–] d_cagno@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

underdeveloped

parenti

[–] grey_wolf_whenever@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

its like that viral video about north korea, where the lady explains that if you just assume the US state department is lying you end up on the right side of history most times

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

That's the line that I couldn't stop staring at... Like, even in neolib brain world that is some thinly veiled racism.