• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      Apparently criticising Western Exceptionalism = “simping for dictators”

      I’m increasingly convinced that liberals don’t even think words mean anything anymore beyond signalling what team you’re on.

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        5 hours ago

        When you read the description “dictator from the middle east” and you believe that it is an attack on Asians in general, you do not understand that not everybody from the Middle East is Asian or a dictator.

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            2 hours ago

            Just look below. Pretty clearly to call the other person a racist.

            The irony obviously being that this is about the interior design of the White House and calling it “designed by a dictator from the middle east” is about as bad of an insult as “designed by a king from europe”. It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.