Whataboutism? What about you stfu
I wonder if I can use that in court since all law is based on past cases and comparison.
Some people learned the term whataboutism and now just won’t shut up about it. Talking about bad shit in the US’ past is not, and has never been, whataboutism.
Libs have the mental maturity of a kid that learns a new word and has to use it constantly to show everyone how smart they are for learning a new word. Regardless of if they are able to comprehend the meaning.
I noticed redditors started using the word right after John Oliver had an episode talking about it, because redditors are exactly the type of people to watch John Oliver for their political news
the day one realises that Westerners and specifically Americans fundamentally don’t understand Islam or the Middle East and everything they say is coated in a layer of orientalism is the day your life gets better
Yeah, legit. They have no fundamental understanding of these countries or their culture because they never lived there nor invest the time to even begin to understand them.
They would rather rely on their implicit chauvinistic first impressions (inculcated by centuries of propaganda) than try to even even extend their empathy towards a region with 250million people and not dehumanise them.
Unironically reading “theory” made me understand this and also made me more optimistic and hopeful on the future than the pessimist that I was a few years back.
Edit: Ok apparently MENA has nearly 500million people now. I am not sure where I got the 250million figure.
icl it can sometimes seep it’s way into leftist spaces too when they go on the whole “marxism and religion aren’t compatible” tirades. so dehumanising. i just wish people would stop talking about things they know nothing about is it too much to ask 🥲
How 'bout them eyeraqeez stop doing things I don’t know 🤨
What does icl stand for?
i can’t lie
Thanks
Tbh the only religion I don’t trust Marxism with is Christianity.
For fuck’s sake, I’m so tired of this nonsensical oxymoron of “religious marxism”. Religious leftists are the theocracist equivalent of Frankfurters and SocDems at least, and even Nazbols/PatSocs.
okay “victim of religion”
Yeah, thanks. Sarcasm ain’t gonna change shit, tho.
i’m muslim, i organise whenever I can, i commit so much time to socialist causes, i’ve spent whole days reading theory - but because I pray salah i’m not a valid Marxist? who are you to tell religious people what their religions can and cannot mean?
Don’t worry, I won’t be the one now to stick in into your cognitive dissonance. By the way, what is better? Communism or God?
This is why I left Islam Criticism to Ex Muslims, which have a loooooooot to say, and we have to listen to them.
You still have to be careful there because there are a lot of compradors in that group of people. All people’s have Candace Owens types.
Yeah, sure. And instead of doing something about them, most commies tend to alienate them because “anti religion sentiment is western imperialism” or something, and here we are, having theocracist dressed as reds, and victims of religions fleeing towards people that have a common enemy.
We have a lot more work to do.
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The Left (EU) did this racist video where they get facts wrong and say Qatar shouldn’t build tramlines. https://youtu.be/KpjJM9mzg5Y
Absolutely plenty of valid criticisms of Qatars, such as labour protection failings which they mention in the video but somehow don’t see as the primary issue (I guess brown labourers are only marginally pity-worthy), but to pretend they’re somehow uniquely bad in a line-up that includes the USA is ridiculous.Perhaps Angloids should have kept in mind the ramifications that propping up Wahhabi client states in the area would have in the future… just another example of a complete lack of historical memory, we cause the problem and then denounce the puppets we set up. That same “extremist Islamism” was perfectly acceptable for the West when they were aiding in the slaughter of Iraqi socialists and secularist pan-Arab revolutionaries.
The recent Netflix documentary did something similar. Valid criticisms of FIFA and Qatar, but they were very obviously trying to promote the idea that the WC should be held in Britain or the USA instead.
If any world cup deserves to be boycott, it’s the next one. Easy to send a clear signal too if people still attend the Mexico games but not the USA and Canada ones.
Thousands of workers died making those stadiums, yet because they don’t see those laborers as human, they don’t give a shit about that. It’s literally slavery 2.0.
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You are exactly the type of person I am talking about. Thanks for the technicality, I guess those people didn’t die.
From your link:
15,000 dead — but not only for the World Cup’s sake
You are exactly the type of person I am talking about.
Yeah well, I gave up on charitable interpretations from lemmygrad long ago.
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Russia bad because it invaded two countries. That’s what the US does anually.
What 2 countries it even invaded then?
Honestly, I only can remember Ukraine. Technically Georgia, after it started the war.
It was 2018
