Auntie Sylvie
1 min readJun 17, 2024

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The West didn't invent imperialism, nor is it solely culpable for those sorts of behaviours listed in your screed. The racism inherent in your own worldview is messed up, man. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations! Are you unaware of the Barbary slave trade, to name a super obvious instance of parity between the forces of evil on each half of the globe?

Nope, I think that if you want to heap all the shit on our door but not value Western contributions to higher learning, thought, art, and society, that is just as silly as claiming algebra for the East ( thanks guys!) and yet denying the Mongol empire existed, or that the Ottomans taxed or fucked their way through a solid chunk of other people's shit. Let's also take a moment and discuss how Ubuntu and Marxism are like two sides of a coin and both can be so sexy...BUT - are they the way? Probably not. Here in the West we can argue about it freely. Why leave? But you said you want to.

So....bye!

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Auntie Sylvie
Auntie Sylvie

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