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Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.
minus-squareyucandu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·22 hours agoAmericans when they don’t realize most of the West isn’t American, don’t speak English, and don’t generally oppose rebellion against oppressors. Ireland, for example.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoC’mon you can’t bring up Ireland as representative of the West when they’re the OG colony. By that metric the West is anti-Zionist.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 hours agoSure add: Greece. Portugal. Italy. France. Spain. Armed antifascist struggles, may 68, general strikes, civil wars, guerilla groups, etc. Like the reductiveness of “West bad” is so insanely naive that it hurts.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoUnfortunately ireland is the exception not the rule and even they have their faults
Americans when they don’t realize most of the West isn’t American, don’t speak English, and don’t generally oppose rebellion against oppressors. Ireland, for example.
C’mon you can’t bring up Ireland as representative of the West when they’re the OG colony. By that metric the West is anti-Zionist.
Sure add: Greece. Portugal. Italy. France. Spain. Armed antifascist struggles, may 68, general strikes, civil wars, guerilla groups, etc.
Like the reductiveness of “West bad” is so insanely naive that it hurts.
Unfortunately ireland is the exception not the rule and even they have their faults
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