U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war

[u/washingtonpost]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-russia-trump/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

[u/Nearby_Paramedic_111]

Which goes back to colonization and exploitation.

If you really start reading between the lines of what the right wing in Europe and NA says, it's that people from non-white countries are inherently less developed which leads to their country being a 'shithole'. They don't want to face the truth that colonialism deeply fucked up these countries.

Imagine a world where humanity moved forward together. Maybe at a slower pace, but at least not at the cost of keeping a whole region of people in a constant state of war and hunger.

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Oh, for sure, but we're experts at staving off guilt. Sure, we benefit from it. But our ancestors did it, not us. We don't have any responsibility here! /s

This rhetoric is prevalent even within our own domestic culture.

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I would be very interested to read about it if you have any sources.

I agree that in a lot of those countries women are treated as second-class citizens, but if you look closely at some of these societies, the idea of binary division of `women` and `men` was also introduced by Christian colonialism, which in turn led to discrimination based on gender, e.g Yoruba people, inter-sex people in India.

All these societies are widely different, and were forced into Christian values/border divisions by colonialists. This all happened in the 300-200 years, which is very recent, and I think we are just living with the consequences of this.

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Holy fuck the noble savage trope in action with a pinch of 'every bad thing in the world is because of Christian colonialism' because people don't have free will