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Pro tip for white people, because your colonizer indoctrination has made you blind to this:
No one that gets invaded by anyone ends up better than they started. Yes, that includes all the countries you've invaded too.
As a PoC who grew up in the West the colonizer indoctrination is directed at everyone here, not just white people. We're just more likely to decolonize our mindset due to attachment to communities negatively impacted by colonial institutions.
I generally agree, and I have the same mindset. So you can imagine how surprised I was when my Taiwanese friend told me how much better off Taiwan was after the Japanese occupation. Probably the only Asians with a positive opinion of Japan...
Their family probably came to Taiwan after the Japanese invasion.
Japan was notoriously brutal to the indigenous population, but most of the people in Taiwan came there in the civil war.
In fact, stamping out the indigenous culture has been an ongoing part of the post civil war Taiwanese government, and it's only recently that the Taiwanese language has been allowed to be taught in schools.
I guess it's only the case for the Mandarin-speaking population
To be fair, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan ended in 1945, so who knows what you're friend is basing that on.
He said his grandparents told him so
Japan?
This completely misses the point and no one thought that.
Most Europeans and Americans believe this.
"If we just invade them and force them to adopt our ideologies for 80 years there will be so much natural progress.
And as payment for our contributions, we can monopolize all their their resources to our private companies where locals will work for near-slavery conditions."
You need to talk to some MAGA folk.
Even "women cannot become doctors"-Afghanistan?
Yes. Motherfuckering liberals still out here like, "We had to murder hundreds of thousands of your civilians to save you from yourselves," even about a project that (entirely predictably) ended in complete, abject failure and left everyone worse off except oil companies and arms dealers.
It's incredible how much this 1800s colonizer mindset lives on in modern day people.
That is the current reality of Afghanistan, yes? Is this before or after their most recent invasion by the West?
Maybe the region would not have stalled their progress so much if they weren't invaded during colonization, cold war, and the US oil fetish.
So yes, even "sometimes slightly browner people" Afghanistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasions_of_Afghanistan
Nice
Has anyone ever said that racism is bad even when it's against white people? Just don't do it to anyone as we're all the same, and such?
Pro tip: just replace any color with a different color. If all of the sudden it sounds offensive to you, then it was offensive to begin with.
I now sincerely wonder how many people will come by to tell me that racism towards white people is fine because a group of white people were assholes, so we all must be assholes
The worlds tiniest violin has never stopped playing for the white folks subjected to what they think racism looks like.