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because people from the global south are nothing more than rhetorical constructs to liberals
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by imsobadatnicknames2:
"A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original 'anonymized people of the global south' tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals;
(Screenshot of a Twitter post by @loudpenitent: "An anonymized 'people of the global south' is not worth more than domestic queer citizens or any other member of any other marginalized community - or, bluntly, any fellow citizen at all. Real-ass human beings matter more than rhetorical constructs.") (end of Twitter screenshot, back to imsobadatnicknames2’s commentary);
If I wrote a character saying this into a piece of media about how much americans suck it'd be too on the nose."
this tweet is an answer to the numerous leftists (most of them from the global south) criticizing democrats for being imperialist ghouls
and it’s saying, to those leftists, "stfu 'people from the global south' is just a rhetorical construct, americans matter more than it"
i.e. the tweeter blatantly doesn’t care about the numerous, very real lives from the global south impacted by american imperialists
I still don't get it. But I don't think that's your fault.
“People in other countries aren’t as important as people in this country” to translate it from liberal garbage.
Why is this downvoted? Lol do people think you are saying that?
I think it's the inclusion of the word "liberal" because that's a political term with many different meanings depending on where you are geographically and politically.