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Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated
by throwaway91827 7mo ago
Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated discourse?
- simianwords 7mo agoyes that's my point. Trump is an aberration.
- boca_honey 7mo agoHe's right. Moral self-righteousness aside, Hollywood was a window for many of us in "developing countries" to a better world. Yeah, it was an idealized version of reality, but that's how many of us discovered science, athleticism or sexual freedom, for example.
- throwaway91827 7mo agoI don't disagree that you got a window into American values, I just don't agree that proximity to American values is the same as civilization versus primitivism.