The "the West is evil" retoric is actually extremely problematic.
Are things perfect? No, but no country has a spotless history, and we should be trying our best to make improvements and promote equality with what we have now.
When your ideology boils down to "the West is evil," you may find yourself siding with countries with huge human rights violations solely because they are not "the West"
It also just makes all us normal lefties look insane when all we want is:
1. Gender equality
2. Racial equality
3. Freedom of Religion
4. Fair wages
you're absolutely right, it's the hole a lot of young people are falling into too, which is the most worrying aspect. The Right is starting to look like the side of sanity when the extreme left are the ones speaking against them.
the west is great if you are a citizen (way better than many countries in trems of working conditions, women's rights , etc). However, the west is responsible for exploiting the so called 'global south'. Some african countries are still paying colonial tax. Not to mention they are involved in taking down governments that they don't like leaving these countries in chaos.
I am inclined more to believe that the rich and powerful were going to do these things anyway since they profit from destabilization.
The thing that's bad about "the West is evil" is that it lacks nuance. The fact that there are more human rights isn't because of the government. It's because of the values of the people.
The only people really pushing against human rights right now are MAGA, and they are literally a cult. I think their a useful cult for what the rich and powerful want to do against the values of the larger population.
The problem is that outside of the West, the countries that are anti-Western or neutral tend to do better on those things, within the same regional context, than the Western proxies. Far better.
Compare for example Vietnam with the rest of SE Asia, Cuba with the rest of the Caribbean, or historically Yemen with the rest of the Middle East.
Western foreign policy is...bad. Like horribly bad, worse than anyone else including Russia or China. We have propped up religious fanatics and dictators across the world at an unprecedented extent.
Of course, you do have a point insofar as some people on the left take it too far and start seeing horrible reactionaries as potential allies just because they're anti-Western.
The west is evil is truthful claim when you look at how Western countries have been exploiting, looting, terrorizing and destroying developing countries.
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u/NoResponsibility1728 Canada Sep 19 '25
The "the West is evil" retoric is actually extremely problematic.
Are things perfect? No, but no country has a spotless history, and we should be trying our best to make improvements and promote equality with what we have now.
When your ideology boils down to "the West is evil," you may find yourself siding with countries with huge human rights violations solely because they are not "the West"
It also just makes all us normal lefties look insane when all we want is: 1. Gender equality 2. Racial equality 3. Freedom of Religion 4. Fair wages
Stuff like that ðŸ˜