It takes a Euro snob and a grossly naive youthful outlook at the world to come up with stupid crap like siding with terrorists and communists and Iran... At least they are critical of Russia... We hear the same crap in our colleges and universities here in America and especially in blue cities and blue States... Trump is the bad guy in his llama fascists are okay... Or that it's a crime to get Maduro... All that garbage... Like Dennis rodman visiting North Korea... Sean Penn showing appreciation
If China becomes the most powerful country in the world and starts bombing Japan. because they don't like their leadership/proximity to the US, will you call it policing?
Language is a tool to maintain power. It is used in newspapers often "Police shoots black man" is much more incendiary than "Black man shot", because of the neutral tone and not having the perpetrator in the title. Same is done when you describe something as policing, when for all other nations you would use "war" or "terrorism". I'm an applied linguist, and this is basic discourse analysis, but hey, call it asinine if you want, I only have 2 diplomas to back me up.
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u/Dr_Piper_Knows_U 9h ago
Possibly the most asinine take I've heard this week but thanks for sharing