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Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east
Hey, relax guy
Well you're half right.
Wouldn't even be surprised if someone from MBS's team is involved
Mohammed Ben Sulayem? President of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) who is trying to be a corrupt dictator of Formula 1 racing?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ben_Sulayem
(obligatory /s)
Maybe their new friend, Al Qaida Jolani the headchopper's influence?
Well they invariably are the US best friends.
Bad thing happens in the West
Liberals: "What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!"
Tankies just can't stop simping for dictators with pathetic disingenous strawmen.
Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = "simping for dictators"
I'm increasingly convinced that liberals don't even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you're on.
When you read the description "dictator from the middle east" and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.
What exactly do you think their point was?
Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.
The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it "designed by a dictator from the middle east" is about as bad of an insult as "designed by a king from europe". It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.
This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don't believe in Western exceptionalism.
The reason looking at Trump's ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they "look like a middle eastern dictator designed it" is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.
But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump's gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism
Saying Trump's design sense is "Like a middle eastern dictator" is very different from saying it's "like a European king". The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people's the Global South.
Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I'm begging you people!
Go back to your reddit
A white man redecorated the Whitehouse and the person I responded to went "This Looks like a brown guy redecorated!" I don't think I'm the one who needs to go back to reddit
Yeah? Is that what they said?
Yes.
I think you're the racist one here.
Wanna explain that one, Sherlock?
I will leave that exercise to the readers.
Moron