You’d 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 it’d only be to complain about taxes. None of them are actually thinking about Africa in their free time.
I don’t know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things you’ve ever heard about “those people”, 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 wouldn’t be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.
Maybe it’s a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. I’ve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here they’d 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 don’t know what I’m failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What I’m 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 they’d 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. That’s the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we weren’t 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 don’t talk about Africa, because they don’t think about Africa, because they don’t even pretend to care about Africa.
Racist Americans are obsessed with being White Saviors, they think about Africa all the time
You’d 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 it’d 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 don’t know what to tell you. I know a lot of people who will happily spout off some of the nastiest things you’ve ever heard about “those people”, 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 wouldn’t be any problems in the world. They just get mad if you make them try to think about what they believe.
Maybe it’s a regional difference, or maybe we just hang out in different racist circles. I dunno. I’ve never actually met a racist that cared about anyone outside of the US enough to have a white savior complex though. Around here they’d 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, it’s about pretending to do something good
Look, I don’t know what I’m failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What I’m 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 they’d 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. That’s the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we weren’t 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 don’t talk about Africa, because they don’t think about Africa, because they don’t even pretend to care about Africa.