"You might be dead" is a remarkable sentence.
It contains, in four words, the complete psychology of the savior complex.
You don't know where I'm from. You don't know my country's history. You don't know what political tradition I come from, what my people have survived, what we built before and after contact with American power.
You just know that without America, I might be dead.
The assumption is total. It is not argued. It doesn't need to be argued. It is the water the argument swims in.
The world before American intervention: darkness, death, dictators.
The world with American intervention: the possibility of survival, extended generously from Washington.
This is not a political position.
This is a creation myth.
In this myth, the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have no history, no agency, no political tradition, no capacity for self-determination until America arrives and either saves them or, regrettably, fails to save them in time.
We were here before you arrived.
We had revolutions, philosophies, legal systems, agricultural civilizations, and democratic traditions before your country existed.
We will be here after your empire has gone the way of all empires.
The sentence "you might be dead" tells me nothing about my mortality.
It tells me everything about how you see the world.
@Washingtonsays@kuzushi I have nothing to say to a subhuman like yourself kid. Once you learn more about people I could talk to you. Right now it would be like trying to argue with a pig.
@LMAOmaster2003@kuzushi Vato, dijo que el unico fast food que había eran los precisamente los restaurantes de comida rápida extranjeros que acabas de mencionar. Tranquilízate un chingo, como que “dejaste de leer”, como si te hubieran hecho una ofensa jajaja
@BlueDoucheMark@indigoozs 🤣🤣🤣
You eurofags didn’t shower before coming to this continent. You used to shit in the street before that. You used to die on you own shit. And you call the indigenous that used to shower every day and had running water monkeys? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so stupid