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[–]luckystar 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I hate this shit so much "Gender binary is a Western colonial invention!". Confucian thought strongly influence[d] China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam for thousands of years and has a clear "gender binary" as one of its most fundamental tenets. Literally far more humans on earth live in a Confucian patriarchal "gender binary" culture than in a Western one. These people can't see beyond their own backyards and think they're worldly because they said they don't like white people lol.

[–]fuck_reddit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"hm yes, today I, a white person who has not read a single book or text written after 1950, am going to lecture a people of different cultures and people who have read the texts of other cultures carefully and with an open mind that they are ignorant and stupid." In all seriousness though it annoys me so much. I had a high school history teacher that was bomb AF like she traveled to do history research in foreign countries at her own expense like I'm talking going to Iran solo as a woman and asking people tough questions about Iranian government and culture at the ruins of Persepolis. And she was willing to make harsh (but accurate) cultural judgements, and at the same time, she encouraged people to be more open minded culturally and intellectually. But she has--since her retirement--been deemed a virulent racist by former students (who also just so happened to get bad grades in her class) for saying the hijab is motivated by sexism and foot binding was one of the greatest atrocities ever perpetuated against women... oh, this virulent racist also tutors immigrants in her free time (for free) in English, civics, history, etc. and funds the education of college students in syria... but she's a racist...