• Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    “Democratic” fills the same niche these days that “Christian” filled in the days of the European colonial empires. Anyone who wasn’t nominally Christian was automatically evil and had no rights. Anyone who was deemed nominally Christian was to be supported against non-Christiams, even if they were doing decidedly un-Christ-like things like stealing, raping, and murdering.

    It’s just a thin veneer of in-group/out-group distinctions applied to politically expedient bad things to make them look justifiable.

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      11 months ago

      Then:

      We have to bring civilization to those savages!

      Now:

      We have to bring democracy to those terrorists!