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While I don't think that you're advocating the same type of "help" that a colonialist would, you must be able to see the irony in calling someone a colonialist
by notmarkus 10y ago
While I don't think that you're advocating the same type of "help" that a colonialist would, you must be able to see the irony in calling someone a colonialist while also saying the exact same thing that all colonialists said — that "we must help them". The implication, of course, is that they are unable to help themselves.
You believe that — through your own luck and with your own privilege — you are able, and therefore should be willing to help people who — through no fault of their own — require some help.
A colonialist would say that — due to their innate genetic superiority — they are able, and therefore should be willing to help people who — due to their own innate inferiority, primal culture, and lack of intelligence — require some help.
- pjmlp 10y agoI can hardly have a colonist attitude given that I work for an Asian company, so excuse my lack of English skills for expressing help.
- victorhooi 10y agoI don't think being Asian somehow makes you immune to having a colonial approach =)....lol. (And yes, I'm Asian too). If anything, as an ethnic Han Chinese myself, I know we are all too aware of how to conquer and colonise other places. And trust me, Chinese have no shortage of a superiority complex, regarding the barbaric hordes outside of the Middle Kingdom grins. This isn't exactly like being Jewish, and getting away with anti-Semitic remarks like Sacha Baron Cohen.
- pjmlp 10y agoI am Portuguese, working across Europe as employee of an Asian company.