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[โ€“] DessertStorms@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They just going to pretend Imperialism didn't literally criminalise homosexuality everywhere it went?
All this mental gymnastics and somehow they end up at painting imperialism as significantly more progressive than it was (in the eyes of non-bigots of course).. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] PugJesus@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Imperialism, to tankies, means the present state of things, not the colonialism of the 19th century.