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Is it simply because theyre white?
It does seem a lot of activists follow a simplistic narrative that all europeans are privileged, evil and non europeans are oppressed. Its rather condescending, not to mention ignorant, ignoring theres many developed countries with non white majorities like japan, korea or the gulf states, that have high living standards.
Its also lead to very selective outrage and criticism. Such as the, justified, condemnation of eastern european countries for homophobic and bigoted laws while being giving much less attention to far worse abuses in islamic countries.
Or, hell, just their attitude to history. Acting like its a simply narrative that the whole of europe abused the entirety of the world. Ignoring many european countries never had empire, were themselves a colony of an empire, like finland, ireland, romania and most of south east europe who were rendered vassals of the ottomons, ukraine etc, things like the people enslaved by the Barbary pirates, crimean khanate. Which is ironically a highly anglocentric point of view.
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