this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had an irl conversation the other day which hammered this point home. Westoids cannot psychologically handle being called out on being wrong, not knowing something, and on being prejudiced. That and all the other material reasons we know and discuss regularly mean that this instance, no matter how small, is a thorn in their eye, a spectre haunting their dreams.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Especially the prejudice, it’s always that we need to save Chinese people from their government, it’s always some extension of the white man’s burden couched in softer language

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It really is treated as a "sin" to be ignorant of something in the west. Personally, I love not knowing something, because it means I get to learn something, but again, education in the west is treated as "that thing that happens when you're 6-18 and no other time." and refuse to ever try to educate themselves as adults.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yea. I've learned to not believe everything I hear anymore. It takes time to look into whether something is true for me nowadays.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 1 year ago

Calling people "westoids" makes you sound like a fucking idiot, just BTW.