🔗 Western civilization

And here’s our regular reminder that “Western Civilization” is a colonialist concept.

Whenever you hear that term used, ask yourself: who are people specifically wanting to exclude when they prefix “civilization” with “Western”?

For any non-racist definition of “civilized”, people are civilized in every country of the world; East and West, North and South. The idea that there’s some other chunk of the world “which doesn’t share our values” is us-and-them propaganda.