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[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

The average westerner believes they have a higher quality of life than the average Chinese citizen, but that's slowly changing I think.

restaurants cost 2x what they did earlier in my lifetime, rent probably 3x. I remember learning about career options in highschool that essentially stopped existing less than a decade later. I'm not that old. How fast is slow suppose to be?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Racism is a powerful buffer to prevent anything good happening. Westerners need to go through a lot before admitting they're worse off than non-whites

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

In the gardeners’ minds better off and just better are the same. To admit they’re not doing as well materially as the Chinese would require dismantling white supremacy first.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

I know you probably meant westerners but I want to imagine an evil group of racist gardeners stalking around

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Calling them gardeners is referencing this:

After days of mounting international backlash, Josep Borrell, the European Union's outspoken foreign policy chief, has apologised for his controversial remarks in which he described Europe as an idyllic "garden" of prosperity and the rest of the world as mostly a "jungle."
"Some have misinterpreted the metaphor as 'colonial Euro-centrism'," Borrell wrote in a blog post on Tuesday evening. "I am sorry if some have felt offended."
But he did not reject the figure of speech and instead doubled down on it, arguing the term jungle is an apt illustration of the lawlessness and disorder that currently rule world politics.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Oh I hadn't heard this before, thank you

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