Apparently “nationalism is bad” is an uncivil take. Unless there’s another reason someone would ban this comment… 🤔
I dated a Chinese student at university. She seemed alright until somehow the topic of Tibet came up, and then she went full tankie describing how the Tibetan people were nearly subhuman, living terrible lives with no ability to care for themselves.
I’ve heard people say similar shit about indigenous Americans and yeah I think it’s safe to say that you cannot understate the dangers of propaganda and nationalism.
Ain’t no racism like Asian racism. I lived with a Chinese buddy of mine for almost 10 years. He said American racism has nothing on Asian racism. Some of the Chinese and Japanese people legitimately despise each other. Long history of atrocities between them.
Well you’ve never asked a European about gypsies.
My extended family is German and British. I am well aware how the gypsies are thought of by many over there.
I have lost track of how many times I have brought up gypsies when they are taking about how racist Americans are and then suddenly “it’s different”. They literally don’t even look at it the same way. That’s some wild shit.
That long history can be found in a lot of places with “zero” racism, like… look at all of Europe, everyone at war all the time.
It is always funny when other places shit on America for our history of slavery. Like Koreans for example. They had the longest unbroken chain of slavery of any modern society and yet you’ll still have some of them trying to say Americans are the worst because of our history of slavery.
It’s like… All places in the world had (or still have) slavery going on. Why does the Internet seem to think we were the worst offenders???
It’s like… All places in the world had (or still have) slavery going on. Why does the Internet seem to think we were the worst offenders???
tbf, there are only a handful of systems of slavery that were worse than Southern US and Caribbean slavery as-introduced-by-the-triangle-trade. We were running one of the worst variations of what was already one of mankind’s worst systems ever devised.
But yeah, people often aren’t looking at that so much as “I know about American slavery and not slavery in my own country”
