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Global citizenship is bullshit; it completely overlooks the power differential. It is at best anachronistic if not conspiratory.
To be a conservative is to align yourself with the powerful white men, hoping to get a share from them. To be a leftist is to align yourself with the worst-off, hoping to overthrow the powerful white men and then get a share. To be a moderate liberal is to sit tight and wait till you suck up to the winning side and then get a share.
Is there anyone like me who just skips the long political posts? Yeah yeah I get it you think you are important and you have to preach with verbosity. But this page is about confession. Why don't you save your passion for the next town hall meeting?
Today, a kid straight up wrapped his thermos up in a newspaper, sketchily filled it, and smuggled coffee out of cafe mac.. He is going to do better in life than all of us combined.
I for one am glad of the general leftward tendency of Mac Confessions, despite the fascists in the comments.
To everyone trying to figure out conservatives on this campus - have you ever considered going to a Mac GOP meeting? I hear they are super receptive to non conservatives coming to discuss/observe/and ask questions
If you really think that "global citizenship is imperialism" then your head is waayyy too far up your ass. Have we really come this far where it is somehow wrong as a liberal to be genuinely interested in understanding other societies and cultures around the world different from our own? I thought we were supposed to want to live in a global community with other societies, where different peoples see each other as neighbors whom they can understand, rather than as incomprehensible others. If that is apparently not what global citizenship has to do with, well then you've lost me.
But no, I guess integration of peoples and assimilation of cultures is a taboo topic nowadays. It's now apparently wrong to try to understand each other's experiences and share in each other's cultures, because, god forbid, that could be appropriation. It's wrong to try and unite us based on what we as humans share in common, because then we'd be trivializing each others precious experiences. And believing that we should have some common decency and mutual solidarity toward peoples with different cultures and toward peoples in the developing world (i.e. global citizenship)? Well shit, that would be imperialism now.
Down is up and up is down. Well fuck this postmodernist bullshit. Don't you all see the irony here? I know a lot of us can and we're laughing. You're inability to hold any nuanced position, and the rush you get from spouting off your self righteousness, has brought your ideology full circle. You may hate those imperialist, fascist pricks, as you should. But don't you also see the way in which you seek to divide people, not unite them? Though there is a long way to go, we've come so far in stopping racial and cross-cultural injustices largely because today we have a much better understanding of our shared humanity, that we are citizens with one another. And you guys really want to risk it all? You guys really want to drive a wedge again between people by telling them that they'll never be able to understand each other? You guys really want to go out saying that our attempts to better the world by fostering a more cosmopolitan outlook are imperialism, that the notion of a shared humanity is some bourgeois liberal construct, and that what divides us as people is more important that what unites us?
PSA if you leave your towel in the Kirk bathroom I will use your towel to wipe up vomit again #sorrynotsorry