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Fuchsia
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It's the biggest 4D chess ever and diabolically brilliant if you understand it.
White people realized that they no longer could (or just didn't feel it was worth it) take over other cultures directly, so they instead had to conjure up some alternative method of reinforcing their hegemony. Their method of doing this was to convince the other races that race is a social construct.
Now, I know what you are thinking: "How do you conquer the other races by telling them race doesn't exist and that we're all equal
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It sounds ridiculous on the surface, but it actually makes plenty of sense.
The way traditional imperialism works is that you proclaim civilizational superiority and then use that as your pretext for establishing your hegemony over other 'lesser' civilizations. But the problem with that approach is that it requires expensive military campaigns and also causes the rest of the world to see you as a rival/threat, plus it's just not considered acceptable to go around the world taking places over anymore.
And thus white people came up with an ingenious solution: Use their hegemony to make white culture everyone else's culture whilst simultaneously convincing everybody that there isn't actually such a thing as white culture (because race 'doesn't exist').
Whites control most of the global media and institutions, and this means that the value system of the world will lean in favor of whatever benefits whites (or rich whites at least. Maybe not so much the poor.) If you control the culture, you basically control the planet. But the problem is that you cannot maintain that control if other races feel that you're imposing your value system on them.
And the solution to that problem was to tell everybody that race doesn't exist, thereby rendering the cultural imperialism invisible.
This is actually the real reason white liberals/progressives/etc freak the fuck out whenver somebody suggests race isn't a social construct. They don't do it because they give a shit about ethnics. They just don't want their crypto-imperialism exposed.
White people realized that they no longer could (or just didn't feel it was worth it) take over other cultures directly, so they instead had to conjure up some alternative method of reinforcing their hegemony. Their method of doing this was to convince the other races that race is a social construct.
Now, I know what you are thinking: "How do you conquer the other races by telling them race doesn't exist and that we're all equal
"It sounds ridiculous on the surface, but it actually makes plenty of sense.
The way traditional imperialism works is that you proclaim civilizational superiority and then use that as your pretext for establishing your hegemony over other 'lesser' civilizations. But the problem with that approach is that it requires expensive military campaigns and also causes the rest of the world to see you as a rival/threat, plus it's just not considered acceptable to go around the world taking places over anymore.
And thus white people came up with an ingenious solution: Use their hegemony to make white culture everyone else's culture whilst simultaneously convincing everybody that there isn't actually such a thing as white culture (because race 'doesn't exist').
Whites control most of the global media and institutions, and this means that the value system of the world will lean in favor of whatever benefits whites (or rich whites at least. Maybe not so much the poor.) If you control the culture, you basically control the planet. But the problem is that you cannot maintain that control if other races feel that you're imposing your value system on them.
And the solution to that problem was to tell everybody that race doesn't exist, thereby rendering the cultural imperialism invisible.
This is actually the real reason white liberals/progressives/etc freak the fuck out whenver somebody suggests race isn't a social construct. They don't do it because they give a shit about ethnics. They just don't want their crypto-imperialism exposed.
