• Omnificer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s white man’s burden BS slipping back in, where people (like Robert E. Lee) would say “We don’t want to enslave these people, it’s just our duty to civilize them.”

    I assume it’s some kind of mechanism for maintaining their cognitive dissonance.