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because people from the global south are nothing more than rhetorical constructs to liberals (lemmy.nz)
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Screenshot of a Tumblr post by imsobadatnicknames2:

"A couple years later it's still amazing what a perfect distillation the original 'anonymized people of the global south' tweet is of the absolute callousness of yankee liberals;

(Screenshot of a Twitter post by @loudpenitent: "An anonymized 'people of the global south' is not worth more than domestic queer citizens or any other member of any other marginalized community - or, bluntly, any fellow citizen at all. Real-ass human beings matter more than rhetorical constructs.") (end of Twitter screenshot, back to imsobadatnicknames2’s commentary);

If I wrote a character saying this into a piece of media about how much americans suck it'd be too on the nose."

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[–] tane6@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this downvoted? Lol do people think you are saying that?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's the inclusion of the word "liberal" because that's a political term with many different meanings depending on where you are geographically and politically.