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Actually, I once witnessed a great take down of white saviors and their "culture talk". It was at a very strange, i guess, "townhall meeting" by a "leftist" group on refugee matters, specifically on how to teach male refugees to respect women. They all babbled on about us needing to respect different cultures and what not. Out of sheer coincidence, a couple who had fled from, I think, Syria, was present and someone translated the discussion to them. They seemed increasingly confused and started to discuss among each other. Finally, the man asked the translator to state their opinion. He asked, if these young people were aware of the fact, that love as a concept exists in Arab countries too and that you do not hurt people you love by beating, raping or coercing them. The wife then added, that they fled the very things that these people perceived as "culture" and that they did not wish for anyone to "respect" that shit and allow it elsewhere. I liked this couple a lot, but mostly, the young people in attendance thought them to be... I don't know... Uncle Toms?
Wow. This is where wokeness has taken us.