There is a not-invalid point here: that current global imperial structures are set up to benefit the West, so it is a bit weird to call someone an imperialist when they’re on the receiving end of it, a target of imperialism.
But of course the same state can be both a perpetrater and victim of imperialism in different arenas or on different scales. Countries are big enough to be both one thing and it’s complete opposite at the same time.
Everyone remembers when the British Empire and Imperial Japan had their highlander-style “there can be only one!” moment to determine who got to keep calling themselves empire
There is a not-invalid point here: that current global imperial structures are set up to benefit the West, so it is a bit weird to call someone an imperialist when they’re on the receiving end of it, a target of imperialism.
But of course the same state can be both a perpetrater and victim of imperialism in different arenas or on different scales. Countries are big enough to be both one thing and it’s complete opposite at the same time.
I don’t get the impression the people who’ve downvoted this have read the second part of the comment.
Everyone remembers when the British Empire and Imperial Japan had their highlander-style “there can be only one!” moment to determine who got to keep calling themselves empire
Rapist who got raped is still a rapist.
Exactly.
No no those rapes cancel each other out
“By denying our oppressors their humanity, we seek to hide the oppressor within ourselves.”