Anonymous #1 2w

no? anything you have to say can be said right here

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Anonymous #2 2w

they made a (very confident, reinforced with “I’m a history major”) sorta ambiguous claim about the language of “first world / third world” being rooted in a particular racist 19th century ideology. the thing about those terms is that before they were used as a reductive stereotyped system of economic classification, they were actually originally coined to refer to allyship status re: the Cold War, which I presumed they already knew. so I said “yeah, and prior to that it was about picking-

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Anonymous #2 2w

-sides in the Cold War”. they hit me with “I wouldn’t say ‘prior’, the Cold War was the 20th century :)” as if I 1) was wrong about when the term came from And 2) thought the Cold War was an 1800s phenomenon? so I asked for a source on their suggestion that the racialized usage originated Before the Cold War usage. bc I knew these phrases did not predate the Cold War. from there they just started contradicting themself incoherently to avoid admitting they weren’t informed on the subject

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Anonymous OP 2w

Yikesss

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