MrHermsprong

Hermsprong · @MrHermsprong

15th Mar 2014 from TwitLonger

Op Porn Pixie issues its flavour [https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/deception_p24.png] of the motif "Anti-imperialism is the new racism":



"Dwelling on the West's sins is strangely narcissistic - debilitating too"

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304168004575178791674850652

then

Zizek (of course) 2010:


"Although Pascal Bruckner's critique of the contemporary Left often approaches the absurd, this does not prevent him from occasionally generating pertinent insights-one cannot but agree with him when he detects in European politically correct selfflagellation an inverted form of clinging to one's superiority. Whenever the West is attacked, its first reaction is not aggressive defense but selfprobing: what did we do to deserve it? We are ultimately to be blamed for the evils of the world; Third World catastrophes and terrorist violence are merely reactions to our crimes. The positive form of the White Man's Burden (his responsibility for civilizing the colonized barbarians) is thus merely replaced by its negative form (the burden of the white man's guilt) : if we can no longer be the benevolent masters of the Third World, we can at least be the privileged source of evil, patronizingly depriving others of responsibility for their fate (when a Third World country engages in terrible crimes, it is never fully its own responsibility, but always an after-effect of colonization: they are merely imitating what their colonial masters used to do, and so on) :


"'We need our miserabilist cliches about Africa, Asia, Latin America, in order to confirm the cliche of a predatory, deadly West. Our noisy stigmatizations only serve to mask the wounded self-love: we no longer make the law. Other cultures know it, and they continue to culpabilize us only to escape our judgments on them.'"

and then

Aaron Bady 2011

"There’s a dangerous narcissism in imagining the West has a monopoly on things like imperialism, and that kind of solipsism is often particularly tempting and satisfying to even those in the West that think bad things about “the West”: it allows us to maintain the belief that the West is still the center of the universe, even if it’s now the Devil rather than God. But being opposed to the devil we know doesn’t change the fact that there actually are other devils. And a legacy of anti-colonial thinking has left a lot of leftists unable to understand that being the enemy of our enemy doesn’t make someone our friend. Just because the great powers of The West are imperialist in some sense doesn’t mean that those who oppose them in some sense — people like Gaddafi, Chavez, Mugabe, or Ahmadinejad — actually are anti-imperialist."

"Molly Crabapple" 2014

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/444478498540101632
https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/439793971959988224
https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/444478886345461760

"While Syrian women are reading the names of their dead in DC, white dudes in my timeline are saying they're irrelevant cause geopolitics/CIA"

"This sort of US-centricness and erasure is expect to see by neocons, not by the left."

"There's a perverse sort of Orientalism in seeing every global conflict solely in terms of one's opposition to US power"


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