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I figured it was a way for these countries to forge their own modern identity, like, “look, we are anti-oppressive and kind, not evil cisgender heteronormative patriarchal colonialists like YOU. All of that rubbish came from your CoLOniALiSm”

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lucille bluth's avatar

It's the geopolitical version of the revenge-of-the-nerds movement that seems to have taken over American politics!

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LL's avatar

I know. Colonialism is rhe evilest evil that ever happened and was done by awful white men to the poor bereft people of color. Because the Ottoman Empire never happened. Japan never did a thing. And China doesn't exist as it does without some expansionist practices of its own. Add to the fact that some cultures that were colonized had done horrible things and were deeply misogynistic and homophobic. But mo. All evilscwere wrought by colonialism

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