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Time-honoured technique (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man's_Burden#Responses

Burden of thieves and Epsteinians

The 'burden' of spreading civilization, democracy

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[–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget it's actually beneficial for the colonized, because now their land produces 100x more goods.

(They're getting none of that and are starving to death)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    There's something to be said about generational memory and how it gets leveraged to keep this asshattery going.

    I don't know what it is, but the way the Epstein class beat around the bush about it in the files and the way it mimicks other document dumps like the freedom of information act as well the sudden push to block younger generations from accessing counter narratives that go viral on social media strongly suggest that the way things can be manipulated as it goes from one generation to the next is useful to them.

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    • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago*

    "Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

    - Anthony Burgess apud Sean Bean

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    [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    White man's burden.

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    [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Seems like the British Empire spread "civilization" around the world, while USA rebranded it to be spreading "democracy and liberty" around the world. The Brits called everyone that stood against them as savages, and the US called everyone that stood against them as commies/terrorists; new boss same as the old boss.

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