Unfriending due to Political Differences

[WolfpackN64]

StarDoor said:

Ka-pi96 said:

You realise that Persians, Greeks, Egyptians and Jews are all technically whites (or more specifically caucasians because the Japanese/Chinese also have white skin so white isn`t really an accurate description of race...), right?

Besides, not a single one of those (including Japanese hating Chinese, which for the record I`m not sure was ever even a thing) is racism. They`re all hating each other based on cultural identity/nationalism rather than due to race.

Oh but other than the examples, I do mostly agree with you.

That's just an issue of semantics. Most people, when referring to the "white race," mean people of European descent. It's why I chose to say "white" in the first place, since "Caucasian," as you said, can refer to Middle Easterners and North Africans as well.

And again, semantics. Nations are just large groups of people with a common genetic heritage. It's still racism, even if the groups I mentioned are more similar to each other than, say, Africans and East Asians. (Also, the Japanese were very ethnocentric before they were defeated in WWII. They were brutal toward China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre)

WolfpackN64 said:

Conquering and subjegation aren't anything new, but subjegation on the scale of modern day imperialism was only possible under capitalism, the rise of liberalism has replaced direct imperialism with economic imperialism in which elites dominate other classes and peoples based on their economic strength.

Large-scale imperialism may have only been possible under capitalism, but that's only by virtue of capitalism spurring technological advancement and creating such a large amount of material wealth. And it's not like Western powers were uniquely horrible to their colonies, especially considering how Western medicine and agriculture allowed the third world to explode in population under their watch.

The western powers were all, at some point in time at multiple levels terrible to their colonies. They also took the right of these people to self-determination. Most western powers continue to economically dominate the third world countries and the relegation of the third world countries to the economic periphery of the worldsystem has kept these countries from developing, it has not aided them to do so.