• letmesleep@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    As you said: That’s history. I’m just describing the world in the 21st century. If I were talking about the 11th century I’d likely be saying similar stuff but with reversed roles.

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      1 year ago

      On he contrary, they just refined the system of exploitation, or why do you think the “west” is rich while most “former” colonies and are still poor in 2023? The over average wealth of the west (which has been and still is strongly based on oil) is not just materializing from thin air but is taken from elsewhere -where it´s missing then- most of the time by malicious foreign politics and economic exploitation and often with military force, pretty similar to how the west did it during the age of classic colonialism.

      If you feel like learning something about Neo-colonialism you might start with:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Wars

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Debt

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man

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        1 year ago

        Those are a couple opinions opinion pieces made by laypeople, not trustworthy sources.

        Besides, it’s simply disgusting to compare the colonialism and the horrors that accompanied it with the economic issues of current international trade relations. You’re belittling victims of actual gencoides here. It’s reminds me a bit of the people who needed to talk about “tyranny” when we had rules against Covid.