• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That’s easy to answer. It’s a long-standing colonial tradition to treat countries which abuse their own citizens, but not westerners, as safe. Doesn’t matter for which purpose.

    Those nostalgic over Victorian era should pay attention to what’s really happening around us and see that we are there again. Even today’s cultural wars are quite similar to Victorian moralism. Except, I guess, our time is not as stylish.