The Belgian congo is like the “I have a black friend” for Imperialists though? It’s the one they all agree was bad so they can pretend their own favourite colonial projects weren’t horrifically brutal as well.
Insert ‘Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, a Belgian about genocide in Congo’ meme
You cannot be a refugee there, you need a job.
EU has 10% immigrants. China has 0,1% immigrants.
1,3 million Syrians took refuge in the EU while barely any could go to china.
China isn’t poor, they are unwilling.
The vile belgoid can not comprehend geography (It is a tad bit shorter to flee to Europe compared to the other side of Asia) or internal migration (EU immigration is overwhelmingly from other EU countries)
That and also the elephant in the room that Europe is the direct cause of refugees because they’re the ones busy destabilizing countries.
A Belgian reactionary excusing their crimes in the Congo. What a surprise.
As shocked as you are, Iove how libs always follow the same script too. Like his whole thread is him going say something bad about China. Like you have to denounce countries libs don’t like.
You know something sad and at the same time funny? I saw the same script as this liberal but with a spanish Maoist. The difference between the Spanish maoist and this Belgian reactionary was that they were whitewashing different empires.
The Maoist was whitewashing the genocidal spanish empire and comparing China’s development of Latin America with the defunct empire. Crazy to see that same script but with a different empire. They will ignore ANY piece of positive evidence just to justify their hatred and their thirst for destruction against China.
How in the world do you call yourself a Maoist and support the Spanish empire…? That’s almost as bad as those “MAGA communists”
I was surprised as you are now with my comment when the ultra threw that one at me. As other comrades have mentioned, the western excepcionalism is probably something very common with western marxists.
I hope you never come across this type of people. In the beginning, I was shocked at reading such nonsense from a person from Spain. As a latin american, I felt very angry and confused at how to respond.
The thing about exceptionalism is that it’s so deeply engrained that even if you adopt good politics, the exceptionalism will end up reasserting itself through the lens of those politics unless you are eternally vigilant. It’s rife on the Western left when you know to look for it.
that it’s so deeply engrained that even if you adopt good politics, the exceptionalism will end up reasserting itself
This is absolutely right, I see a lot of Americans communists who mention how people “flee Cuba to America”, these people have some residue to US chauvinism because unfortunately they are literally trying to deprogram themselves, it’s a political equivalent to asking a child to raise itself.
They need to continue reading theory, they need time and to be called out when they do fuck shit, it’s your choice on how much empathy you bring with the call-out, but imo being kind helps… contrary to some peoples beliefs (cough cough, Khmer Rouge, cough cough), comrades are friends
My point is though that even if you read theory, the chauvinism will still be there, mutating into new forms, trying to slip past your newly acquired immune system. If anything, sometimes the theoretical grounding can give people a false sense of confidence. I think really the key is to have a bit of humility — which is easier said than done lol
Well its a good thing communists call out bullshit xD
I mean I can see that to some extent but the idea of a Maoist supporting Spanish empire is so ludicrous to be laughable
No more ludicrous than western maoists suddenly turning into libertarians during the pandemic 🤷
I’m glad that in my life I’ve been able to avoid Maoists enough to not know what you are referring to….
I feel like people end up internalizing these patterns on reddit where these trolls are the majority. And it works on those forms because they can all just gang up on anybody who disagrees with them. They’ve never had to actually make a coherent argument before.
Look at us now, rich and not communist.
Right, I’m always hearing about the booming Congolese economy, home to millions of happy, healthy, well-fed, amply-housed citizens with strong infrastructure and stable politics. I mean, it’s 179th place on the Human Development Index for a reason, right?
Who does this person think they’re fooling? Strong chance they aren’t from the country they say they’re from, IMO.
They really think they won the argument with this?this comment is actually repulsive lmao, I wouldn’t even know where to start if someone said this to me 💀
indeed
Dude this person clearly needs therapy like what are we even doing. They are not able to register reality
Bro got good day to you sir’d. Fuck me, is lemmy 11 years behind in online social vocabulary? God damn
Somehow he vocalized tipping a fedora
