Youād certainly think so if you only saw racism in the form of tweets. I live in a racist shithole. I know real racists. None of them care about any of that. None of them think about any of that. They might at most retweet something like that, and even then itād only be to complain about taxes. None of them are actually thinking about Africa in their free time.
I donāt know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things youāve ever heard about āthose peopleā, but none of them want to save anything. They just want to be left alone in their own little world where they can pretend that if everyone was just like them there wouldnāt be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.
Maybe itās a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. Iāve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here theyād much rather sort people out by skin color and ship them to the continent that best matches their stereotypes and be done with ever even thinking about it.
Look, I donāt know what Iām failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What Iām saying is that even if someone around here wanted to pretend what they were doing was good for people in Africa it would be to say that theyād be better off without our help. That us giving money to dictators that just end up spending it poorly is doing more harm than good, and Africa would be better off without us. Thatās the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we werenāt also supporting dictators in other ways for the purpose of exploiting the people and resources of Africa while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability I might even agree with that.
Mostly though, they donāt talk about Africa, because they donāt think about Africa, because they donāt even pretend to care about Africa.
Youād certainly think so if you only saw racism in the form of tweets. I live in a racist shithole. I know real racists. None of them care about any of that. None of them think about any of that. They might at most retweet something like that, and even then itād only be to complain about taxes. None of them are actually thinking about Africa in their free time.
I also live in a racist shithole and all the ones I know give a fuck about feeding their white savior complex
I donāt know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things youāve ever heard about āthose peopleā, but none of them want to save anything. They just want to be left alone in their own little world where they can pretend that if everyone was just like them there wouldnāt be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.
Maybe itās a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. Iāve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here theyād much rather sort people out by skin color and ship them to the continent that best matches their stereotypes and be done with ever even thinking about it.
Charity to Africa is not about saving anything, itās about pretending to do something good
Look, I donāt know what Iām failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What Iām saying is that even if someone around here wanted to pretend what they were doing was good for people in Africa it would be to say that theyād be better off without our help. That us giving money to dictators that just end up spending it poorly is doing more harm than good, and Africa would be better off without us. Thatās the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we werenāt also supporting dictators in other ways for the purpose of exploiting the people and resources of Africa while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability I might even agree with that.
Mostly though, they donāt talk about Africa, because they donāt think about Africa, because they donāt even pretend to care about Africa.