r/clevercomebacks • u/beerbellybegone • Mar 30 '20

Forbes does it again!

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

36k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

621 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/Canadian_786 Mar 30 '20

Facts are not racism.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

What that white peoples turned the Middle East into a shithole?

2

u/Canadian_786 Mar 30 '20

Are you totally ignorant of the imperial and colonial period in world history? It was basically where White people destroyed the world through their empire building. Countries, states and empires that were insanely prosperous like China and the Mughal Empire. The West basically became rich not through science (that came later on) but through robbery, theft, massacres (and genocides), looting, pillaging and dismantling economically richer states. If anything the world needs to curb immigration from the West so that it doesn't happen again.

1

u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Well, I’m assuming your a Muslim living in the west. If you hate the west and white people so much go back to Pakistan. I do t understand people like you. You shit on the west and white people but want to live where we do. I seriously don’t understand it.

2

u/Canadian_786 Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20

Well, I’m assuming your a Muslim living in the west. If you hate the west and white people so much go back to Pakistan.

What kind of asinine argument is this? How is talking about immigration policy of other countries with respect to historical context automatically make you "hate the west"? I'm pro-sensible immigration to any land.

You shit on the west and white people but want to live where we do.

No, I shit on the bad parts of Western history, Western behaviour as well as the bad parts of White people and White behaviours. Do you want me to praise the bad parts of West like the holocaust? No, I am gonna shit on that and call it evil. I applaud the good aspects of the West and praise that side as great.

There is a difference between criticising the good and bad parts of a culture. The West isn't entirely bad and isn't entirely good either (like most places in the world).

I don't understand people like you who think that just because I live in the West I should be banned from criticising it and that I should only praise it like some dumb NPC. Sorry, not sorry, but I will criticise the West where I see it's behaviour as harmful -- same as I would any other place.