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It is patronizing when you consider agreeing with your position to be

the UTMOST FUNDAMENTAL basis upon which to change your lives

Like yeah, thanks buddy, I’ll go with our Honduran comrade in trying to remind Hexbear that latin american people should be taken as having their own thoughts and motivations

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that latin american people should be taken as having their own thoughts and motivations

You’re free to have whatever thoughts you want, just don’t expect to be treated like an actual Westerner when you enter an actual Western country

*unless you’re really pale and can speak with an American accent. Then you will be!

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The shared cultural heritage between latin american and “western in the strictest sense” countries seems to be weaponized by certain groups within latin american societies. Because of this, I don’t think we should completely disregard what our comrade from Honduras points out.

I made an effort post with a more detailed account of this view over at /c/effort but this is the bottom line.

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The shared cultural heritage between latin american and “western in the strictest sense” countries seems to be weaponized by certain groups within latin american societies. Because of this, I don’t think we should completely disregard what our comrade from Honduras points out.

So because compradors weaponize those western values instilled via colonialism, they should embrace those values? Define themselves by it? I don’t know how you see the relationship of compradors re-inforcing white supremacy and “western values” and don’t buck them off and reject them and seek to destroy them. Instead, you argue online with western leftists who want to see the west destroyed? Instead you embrace those colonizer’s values as the TRUE IDENTITY of your country? WTF.

You are inverting everything and glorifying colonization. This “honduran comrade” is essentially making the exact same arguments as his comprador masters want him to, fully internalizing the colonizing values and making it part of their identity.

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