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>Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many ca
by keewee7 5y ago
>Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing.
People who think like that are progressives. However many Russia-firsters in the West are right-wingers.
- galbar 5y agoLately, I've been wondering if they are two sides of the same coin...
- _Microft 5y agoHave you heard of the "horseshoe theory" already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
- tablespoon 5y ago>> Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing. > People who think like that are progressives. However many Russia-firsters in the West are right-wingers. Which just goes to show that extreme distrust is eminently exploitable and often gets you to the same place regardless of where you started. There is very much a tendency by some on the left to take "anti-(US)-imperialism" to such an extreme that they become apologists for any anti-US imperialists they come across. I've seen the same thing with COVID. Left-wing "anti-imperialist" websites pushing similar paranoid narratives about vaccines and lockdowns, etc. that would be at home on a far-right website.