Anonymous #1 1d

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

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Anonymous #2 1d

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 1d

-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 1d

Yikesss

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Anonymous #3 1d

see my replies to #2. basically after all that they talked in circles (“well yeah, [racist ideology they referred to in first comment] Is from the 1800s” “um I never said ‘third world’ was coined before the Cold War…”), and when I explained to them that they had tried to “correct” me without being correct, they just posted a “talking to a brick wall” gif and then immediately deleted their initial reply

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