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Is it just me or have libs gotten insanely more racist over the last year? It feels like they at least used to pretend to care, but now they're jumping at the bit to bust the calipers out to demonstrate the superiority of ~~the white race~~ western thought
There's definitely a doubling down effect with some of them. You press them on issues of imperialism, make them realize their privileged position depends on the subjugation and exploitation of the global south, they can only mitigate the cognitive dissonance by either moving left or by owning up to their neo-colonialist mindset, and it turns out a lot of lanyard dorks are perfectly willing to accept the step from implicit to explicit racism.
They've been scratched.
I've noticed White Man's Burden has pretty explicitly evolved into the Western Liberal's Burden. Other cultures are inferior because they don't accept liberal democratic values / are socially regressive, so therefore mass violence against them is acceptable to correct that behavior (don't ask where many of them got stuff like homophobia though).
Republicans (pretending) to be the "anti-Hawk" party really did make normie Libs 1000% worse on foreign policy.
I know the actual DNC has always been as imperialistic as the RNC, but the Libs I knew in High School were generally at least somewhat anti-war. Now suddenly the Iraq War was based actually.
The edges of the ideology are peeling off as collapse accelerates, so what we see are the true believers who have to believe because their jobs depend on it.