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[โ€“] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I think what's happening in China, NK, and Ukraine is worse than what's happening in the West? Absolutely not. Turtle Island is under a 500 year occupation by European settler colonial structures that killed hundreds of millions of people in a program to make extinct all non-European ways of life.

The occupation of the world by Western white capitalist men is still ongoing and still threatens to end cultures, national self-direction, biodiversity, and sometimes even all life on earth through nuclear escalation. The US has pulled out of so many weapons treaties, has poisoned multiple generations of Vietnamese, Japanese, Yugoslavians, Iraqis, etc. The man who designed and engineered the mass murder of generations of Southeast Asians, Kissinger, literally just went to China as a representative of the US. It's non-fucking-stop extreme violence by white men.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Korea have all been bombed to shit by Americans, specifically. The amount of unexploded US ordinance in these regions is mind boggling. The amount of ordinance dropped by the US defies human cognition.

Then we have the US-trained death squads using US-guided tactics to terrorize families and indigenous communities throughout the "Americas", literally torturing and beheading entire families. The US torture program. The long history of Euro-US apartheid in the Americas, the support for South African and Israeli apartheid, the explicit opposition to ending South African apartheid. The emergence of Euro fascism replicating the US program of apartheid. The industrialization of mass murder.

The US leaves open uranium waste pits in Indian territory, poisoning generations of native families. They destroy water and food supplies, on purpose, to maximize extraction and maintain genocide. The mass murder of the US buffalo was committed by the US military to be explicitly take advantage of a treaty clause that would strip the indians of the lands the US displaced them to. Canada is subject to many of these same critiques.

And it never stops. It hasn't stopped in 600 years. Name a country that isn't part of Europe and it will have a centuries-long history of brutal domination by white people replete with genocide, torture, slavery, and theft in the billions. Haiti is still suffering under the debt the West levied on them for freeing themselves under the shared recognition by the West that slaves who revolt stole the property of their own bodies from their owners. The famines caused by England killed millions of subjects. All of the Western touting of poverty reduction has backslid and is built on the total subjugation of billions. If you take China's poverty alleviation numbers out of the UN total count, the backsliding in Western-held territories leaves almost nothing to speak of.

Yes, what's happening in the West is many many many times worse than what's happening in China, DPRK, and Ukraine. And we haven't even talked about Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, the Berlin Conference, nuclear weapons testing in populated areas, environmental devastation by Western oil companies and the millions they kill, the must brutal embargo regimes inflicting collective punishment on hundreds of millions of innocent people for almost a century. The 600 global military bases. The predatory lending. The disgusting medical experimentation. The role of religion in all this.

And despite all of this, you still think you have a leg to stand on. And that's the icing on the cake - the amount of Western propaganda and indoctrination that enlists little children in propagating structural racism and violent extremism from a very early age. Indoctrination so thorough that 20 years of schooling are all completely and thoroughly aligned with the violent lies that perpetuate genocide and no one bats an eye. Where all mass media reinforces the dominant narrative and when people speak up millions shout them down. Where sex is worse than violence. Where violence is so normalized that children commit mass murder in their school on a regular basis. Where you and I can have a real conversation and you think it's somehow logical to claim that what's happening in China is worse than what's happening in the West.

It's a terrifyingly powerful indoctrination, so it's not surprising that you hold the position you do, but it is a position without a single shred of basis. It is 100% a set of false beliefs that perpetuate the centuries-long genocidal extraction and accumulation of wealth.

Go learn history. The fact that you think I'm spouting "the exact same rhetoric" is fucking mind blowing. The fact that you think this is "media inspired" leaves me completely dazed and confused. What media do you think I have access to that pushes this? You think I watch Chinese TV? Russian TV? Iranian TV? You think they have the time and inclination to put out media programs that explain 600 years of global domination by white people? Motherfucker I am studying history and have been for years now and this is literally what happened. Nothing I detailed above is media hype. It's literally YOUR history. Go fucking learn it.

[โ€“] barrage4u@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Relax dude. You let the baby out with the bathwater. What are you trying to accomplish, you really think I'm going to change my mind and NOT think you're some nutjob with these walls of text? You do you.

Also, you haven't changed my mind. I still think that other cultures are equally bad if not worse. I could provide examples and explain it, but it's not like you'd listen anyway.