When you converse with westoids you know some of them aren’t dumb as bricks and actually question some things. But when it comes to questioning the mainstream narrative it is like they turn their brains off.
I was watching kurzgesagt and The hated one and they have a few political vids that make you die of cringe. These two very informative channels are fucking braindead when it comes to mainstream narratives. Probably the same case with every other good westoid channel.
Are westerners inherently dumb or something?
Educated first worlders are educated in liberal institutions that require you to adhere to the religion of liberalism to succeed. And because liberals are on the correct side of social justice from an emotional standpoint, educated people are more willing to buy into liberalism 100% because actual materialist thinking
Not only is harder when you’ve spent you’re entire life incubating and coming of age in the imperial core surrounded by capitalist propaganda and
Requires first-world liberals to admit that they personally benefit from continued genocide and slavery, are functionally powerless to change anything electorally, and the whole accepted history they’ve been taught through liberal institutions is built on a mountain of lies and half-truths. Which is extremely difficult for anyone to accept. Educated people are no different.
Progressive liberalism in a way is just tribalism with more steps.