My theory about “leftists” like this is that they cant conceive of Africans and other Global Southerners as anything other than children who don’t have their own agency. This also explains why they see any other “adult” country that engaged with the global south as some sort of dangerous pedo.
Makes sense. Definitely fits with people being stuck in the western chauvinist, civil/savage colonial mindset of “I must know better inherently because I belong to [superior] identity group.” Not to say these people are necessarily conscious of these tendencies in themselves, but I think it’s safe to say it can be observed from the outside, to an extent.
My theory about “leftists” like this is that they cant conceive of Africans and other Global Southerners as anything other than children who don’t have their own agency. This also explains why they see any other “adult” country that engaged with the global south as some sort of dangerous pedo.
They really do infantalize such nations to a massive extent. Definitely plays a role.
Makes sense. Definitely fits with people being stuck in the western chauvinist, civil/savage colonial mindset of “I must know better inherently because I belong to [superior] identity group.” Not to say these people are necessarily conscious of these tendencies in themselves, but I think it’s safe to say it can be observed from the outside, to an extent.