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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I became politically conscious in the mid-00s and, in my own recollections, *everyone* worked under this assumption. Even US apologists, while not using the word 'empire', made it clear that that's what they thought was happening (using 'Empire is good' Biggar-esque logic)
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
Because to Americans, who opposed British imperialism, cannot have in their collective consciousness that what they did was perpetuate and repackage that British imperialism for their own ends. It’s baked into minds there that they aren’t ruling anything, they freed them.
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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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I think part of it ties into that because America doesn’t have an emperor or king, but an elected leader, it can’t be imperialism. Or that ties into the idea. I mean I know a lot of people who are unaware of American occupations of territories in the Caribbean + Pacific
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