Maybe it's that this (and the video it's referencing) are aimed at Americans, who might be operating in a different political discourse, but it's bizarre to me that the fact that the US is an empire/imperialist is seen as something controversial or even unknown and not a baselinehttps://twitter.com/DrDadabhoy/status/1303750526408904705 …
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It is a terrible and persistent lie that is just caught up in the idea of Manifest Destiny.
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But... that's... exactly what the Brits said/say... it's literally the language of Imperialism.... But yeah, I know this on an intellectual level - it's just another shocking moment of realizing the vast gulf in political baselines across the Atlantic
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Yep. The cognitive dissonance runs deep.
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